Melanie Brown Quotes

I don't really do without any plans. If somebody is trying to do something, you must have plans.

I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

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

I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

I look forward to another good year next year. It would be nice to win, too.

We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.

In a disaster you have to have speed. In order to have speed, you have to have trust. And in order to have trust, you have to have people organized and planning before the disaster.

The 6 Ps: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance

I suppose I was always attracted to the producing function - trying to put things together and make things happen.

I try to be as good a director as I possibly can. I try to be prepared, and I hope everyone else is. The preparation, I suppose, means just about everything. Little things mean a lot.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

Everything is always against you when making a movie, and if you don't have a solid blueprint that the entire team can get behind and understand and then execute, then you're going to be lost on the set.

I like to plan. I like to see the future.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

You work to make sure that, in the game, everybody knows where they're supposed to be at, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But if you put them in a position to be successful, that's all you can ask for.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to read the notes. Otherwise it will be a disaster.