Excessive Planning Quotes

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I come back from holiday needing a holiday.

I'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.

It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for this. There comes a point where milestones can become millstones and ambitions, albatrosses around our necks.