Emma Donoghue Quotes

No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

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

Any plan is better than no plan.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

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

You always look ahead to what you'll do next.

I'm not good at planning ahead because it's just too much. I plan, set it up and then don't think about it again until it's almost time. That's just how it goes.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

I keep a journal/day planner, which really helps me stay organized and focused.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock.

I don't want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

I don't like to think too far ahead.

I trained myself to be organized.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.