Browsing Topic Best Planning Ahead Quotes

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Plan ahead: It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

I don’t pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that’s very dangerous to do, because in the theater one is self-conscious enough without planning ahead or wondering about the thematic relation from one play to the next. One hopes that one is developing, and writing interestingly, and that’s where it should end, I think.

Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one’s days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn’t plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we’re more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.

It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.