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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.

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

Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.

Quotes by George Vecsey

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

Quotes by George Reisman

I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD.

Quotes by George Duke

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

Quotes by Gene Tunney

Up until the time Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera, it was essentially an independent studio whose planning cycle had to be nine months. You got a pickup in January, and you put it on the air in September. That's been the...

Quotes by Fred Seibert

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

Quotes by Faith Hill

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

Quotes by Emma Donoghue

I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don't just do one building at a time.

Quotes by Elizabeth Diller

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

Quotes by Donald Rumsfeld

Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.

Quotes by Don Lemon

Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.

Quotes by Denise Morrison

Koresh believed that God had a plan that would go contrary to any human planning.

Quotes by David Thibodeau

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Quotes by David Morrissey

The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.

Quotes by David Ignatius

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

Quotes by Daniel Libeskind

Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of...

Quotes by Curt Weldon

New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.

Quotes by Craig Kilborn

I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.

Quotes by Cory Michael Smith

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

Quotes by Christian Bale

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.