Planning Plan

Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. 

Plans are worthless, but planning is essential.

A goal without a plan is just a wish. 

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. 

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. 

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. 

If you don't know where you are going, 

you'll end up someplace else. 

To hear never-heard sounds, 

To see never-seen colors and shapes, 

To try to understand the imperceptible 

Power pervading the world; 

To fly and find pure ethereal substances 

That are not of matter 

But of that invisible soul pervading reality. 

To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; 

To be a lantern in the darkness 

Or an umbrella in a stormy day; 

To feel much more than know. 

To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; 

To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; 

To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; 

To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets 

Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. 

To be a smile on the face of a woman 

And shine in her memory 

As a moment saved without planning. 

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. 

You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind. 

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. 

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. 

…everything has a past; everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future. 

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

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW. 

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. 

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. 

Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is. 

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. 

I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad. 

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential. 

Always, Always have a plan 

If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there? 

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. 

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood. 

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.