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Planning Quotes

On structure, freedom, and control.

Wedding planning is described candidly here as more stressful than fun, a small honest counterpoint to grander claims about central planning. That tension runs through ideas of Family and Being organized.

Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel 'em. Just figure out an appropriate forum for the nominee to give an acceptance speech and be done...

Quotes by Mark McKinnon

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

Quotes by Mark Caine

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

Quotes by Marc Warren

From a planning perspective, economic degradation begets environmental degradation, which begets social degradation.

Quotes by Majora Carter

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.

Quotes by Lionel Murphy

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

Quotes by Lawrence Welk

The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.

Quotes by Lamar Odom

Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.

Quotes by Kevin Brady

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

Quotes by Kenneth Frampton

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.

Quotes by Kenneth Arrow

Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

Quotes by Kate Brown

Cities around the United States do not have land use planning like we have in Oregon, and they are all struggling with issues like affordable housing.

Quotes by Kate Brown

I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

Quotes by Julian Barnes

There is absolutely no planning and strategising involved in my career graph.

Quotes by Juhi Chawla

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there's going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

Quotes by Jon Postel

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show.

Quotes by John Turturro

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

Quotes by John R. Allen

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Quotes by John Naisbitt

From a planning standpoint, you want to surround a first-year head coach with quality coaches at all levels.

Quotes by John Dorsey

Planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam Hussein were wholly inadequate.

Quotes by John Chilcot

Frequently Asked Questions

What's this planning quotes collection about?
It ranges from the everyday stress of planning a wedding, to city planning, to a historical reference involving secret wartime-era meetings.
Why do people search for planning quotes?
Many want practical or reflective lines about organizing family events, careers, or life decisions.
Does this collection reference any historical or political events?
Yes, one quote references secret meetings involving a federal chancellor and Nazi-era generals in the context of West German public concern, described factually as a historical reference rather than editorial commentary.
Is this collection only serious, or does it include lighter moments?
It includes both — the honest admission that wedding planning "is not fun" is a lighter, relatable line compared to the weightier political and civic references.
What captions suit this planning collection?
They fit posts about organizing a new chapter in life, whether that's a wedding, a move, or a bigger civic project.

City planning is treated as open-ended rather than fixed, an approach that favors free choice over rigid Go forward control.