You can never plan the future by the past.
Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.
There is no magic in small plans.
Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.
A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.
Formulate a specific game plan... the specific steps in making your intention come to life.
I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don't allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a pair of shoes, without artistic preoccupation, you will not always find you do well. But the days you least expect it, you will find a subject which holds its own with the work of those who have gone before.
Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.
Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and in the best of worlds, nourishing and soulful. A lot of calories get used up before anyone sits down to consume. But more importantly, a lot of talk happens first, news exchanged, secrets revealed across generations, paths cleared with a touch on the arm. I have given and received some of my life's most important hugs with those big oven-mitt potholders on both hands.
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
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