Devon Cajuste Quotes

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.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

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

I remember getting advice like, "Oh, do what interests you. Don't worry about tomorrow, live for today," kind of thing. And to a degree, you've got to do that, you've got to follow your passions. You've got to follow your dreams, but you also have to have a plan. You can't just say I'm going to do what interests me today and I'm not going to worry about tomorrow, that doesn't work. And anyone who's tried that I think quickly finds that out. Think about what turns you on, what do you dream about? But along with that, make a plan and work hard to make it happen.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

I've got a long-term plan.

I have to say, I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan, and I'm still not.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination. A man may feel as old as his years yet as young as his dreams.

I am always focusing on what I can do better for years down the line.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

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

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.