Planning Quotes

If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You have everything within you to do great things in this world. Maybe, you are inspired to sing a song, write a book or poems, create art in various forms. Or you may decide to find a cure for disease, end world hunger, prevent abuse, or take a stand politically. The question is how to begin the process of fulfilling your vision. Start where you are and use the resources you have to build from there. Inspiration is what motivates you to achieve your remarkable ideas. Also it takes time and dedication to excel to the next level.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--becomes less bumptious, physically and entails more loitering with others, sizing people up, flirting, talking, pushing, shoving and horseplay. Adolescents are always being criticized for this kind of loitering, but they can hardly grow up without it. The trouble comes when it is done not within society, but as a form of outlaw life.The requisite for any of these varieties of incidental play is not pretentious equipment of any sort, but rather space at an immediately convenient and interesting place. The play gets crowded out if sidewalks are too narrow relative to the total demands put on them. It is especially crowded out if the sidewalks also lack minor irregularities in building line. An immense amount of both loitering and play goes on in shallow sidewalk niches out of the line of moving pedestrian feet.

~ Jane Jacobs

Teachers should not fear going off plan if a better learning opportunity presents itself. Plans are plans, but children are living, breathing, creative people, who deserve to have their questions answered and original ideas explored.

~ Adele Devine

So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

~ I.m. Pei

The dream of a planned, fair, moral, ethical, cash-free society remains strong, particularly among socialists and liberals. It clearly represents a fundamental human instinct. But feudalism just did not work very well, if only because powerful people will not always obey moral imperatives.

~ Terence Kealey

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.

~ B.f. Skinner

The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't let the excess of demand make you loose your command and get you further from what you've planned.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.

~ Auliq Ice

You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.

~ Richie Norton

We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize those identities, in order to know who you are today.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.

~ Susan Gregg Gilmore

We're all destined for greater things in life. How you execute your plans to achieve that greatness lies solely in your hands.

~ Katlego Semusa

The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, see what’s there for us and then we prepare to relocate into it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The good news is that God gave us imaginations because he wanted us to take a tour into our future, see what’s there for us and then we prepare to relocate into it. Our destiny resides in our imaginations!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Will, is the precursor of possibility, and the foresight of potential.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

A plan is the transport medium which conveys a person from the station of dreams to the destination of success. Goals are the transport fees.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

But I should caution that if you seek to plot out all your moves before you make them—if you put your faith in slow, deliberative planning in the hopes it will spare you failure down the line—well, you’re deluding yourself. For one thing, it’s easier to plan derivative work—things that copy or repeat something already out there. So if your primary goal is to have a fully worked out, set-in-stone plan, you are only upping your chances of being unoriginal.

~ Ed Catmull

The quality of your ideas 'your actual thoughts' determines your success more than you think.

~ Auliq Ice

Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened... Hence, the only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity than it will turn out to be... We are apparently on the trail here of some sort of invisible or hidden hand that beneficially hides difficulties from us.

~ Albert O. Hirschman

We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...

~ Max Mckeown

Success = Dream x Plan x WorkConscious dreams are essential components of your success. When you are backed up by a convincing dream, meticulous planning, and 100% execution, you are bound to be victorius.

~ Vishwas Chavan

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

~ Doris Lessing

If tomorrow is promised to no one, why do we spend today building the foundation for tomorrow. The future may not be promised, but it may be filled with promise.

~ Nikki Dicaro

Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.

~ Terry Pratchett

The future is not about a single mind that sees or predicts - it is about the many.

~ Daniel Egger

The thinking that says, 'I will start building my ideal future tomorrow, or next week, or next month,' is fatally flawed. The future you are going to live is the one you are creating right now at this very moment.

~ Brian P. Moran

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present, how much of daily life is usually spent making plans and attempting to control the future. Never mind that you have no control over it. The idea of the future is our greatest entertainment, amusement, and time-killer.

~ Erica Jong

If you plan to wake up tomorrow, plan for it.

~ Saji Ijiyemi

When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Concentrate on the here and now. The future can take care of itself.

~ Christopher G. Nuttall

You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it

~ Saji Ijiyemi

I can't predict the future but I'm pretty much sure of how I want it to be, how so? Because I have a dream and zero reasons not to achieve it.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Education is not life planning, it is life.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Why spend a thought worrying when you can invest the same thought planning a prosperous future?

~ Phumi Ngwane

If you want a new tomorrow, then make new choices today.

~ Tim Fargo