Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.
First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.
We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
It's never too late to start planning for the future.
Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.
Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are.
Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.
PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.
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