Ken Hakuta Quotes

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

I try not to plan that too much.

I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.

I have a timetable, but no routine.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead.

In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

The best plan is to have no plan.

I think I've lived long enough to understand that plans really are very overrated.

I'm not a planner. I like to try something different, to just see what happens.

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

I don't plan my life.

I do not believe in planning.

My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? What's your schedule like?' I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, 'How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,' I'd try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.

I think it's less stressful to just make decisions as you go, because plans never work out, but you never run out of dreams. You have an eternal bucket list where you keep crossing things off, and keep adding things to the bottom.