Planning Quotes - page 4

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. (Richard Rogers)
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it. View quote
Rose Tremain
On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a week, and then there's a day for planning. With the historical ones, it's a lot harder because you have to stop and double-check facts. View quote
Sarah Pinborough
Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life. View quote
Suze Orman
Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning. View quote
Felix Baumgartner
What were you going to do with it?” McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful.” "Were you planning to attack me?” "No. But that's a good idea. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow. View quote
Hilary Mantel
Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be? Seriously, what else could go wrong? View quote
Holly Black
I'm going to be exposed, aren't I? (Acheron) I don't know. You planning on dropping your pants around me? If so, warn me first. I don't want to go blind. (Savitar) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Luck is the residue of good planning. View quote
David Ignatius
I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something. (David Levithan)
It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there. View quote
Alex Garland
SITTING TIGHT? Holing up? Waiting for answers? Those are things I'm not good at. Planning a massive attack against mechanical geeky-like things when i was already furious and itching to kill something? Piece o'cake. View quote
James Patterson
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Some leaders want to jump right to planning and fixing their issues, without understanding exactly what the problems are. Others want to skip the training phase since it means pulling people out of their jobs. The point is, each phase is important to enhancing culture and driving real change. View quote
Adrian Gostick
I'll always say my prayers... and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me. View quote
Johanna Spyri
Apparently unaffected, she rose. "Yeah, you're probably right. I should be going." She feigned a yawn. "You've gotta head back to work and I've gotta head to jail. Big night for me. I'm planning to shiv someone for a bar of soap. View quote
Kresley Cole
You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone's movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan. When you're starting out, you're willing to do anything. View quote
Chris Pratt
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence. View quote
Atom Egoyan
On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots. View quote
Wes Anderson
A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together. (John Maeda)
Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision. View quote
John Naisbitt
Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple business of planning a war. View quote
John Flanagan
It's a big raised platform at the end of the square, with steps running up to it.” Like a stage?” Evanlyn suggested. "Maybe they're planning to put on a play?” Or an execution,” Horace said. View quote
John Flanagan
During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage. View quote
Conan O'Brien