Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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.
Planning is bringing the future into the present.
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?
Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.
Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be? Seriously, what else could go wrong?
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.
The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can know in their entirety. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on insufficient investment; safety review for open source code is rarely funded, nor sustainable when it is. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on poor planning; wide deployment within critical functions but without any repair regime.
or simply:
