Rigid Planning Quotes

It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.

There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.

I have not been a believer of point guidance. It really limits your flexibility to do what you want. It leads to behavior that is not supportive of long-term shareholder value.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way.

I have trouble working off things that are too preconceived, like storyboards.

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

That's why I hate the outlines and treatments, because all you get are cliches. If you put things down on paper as your plan, it's very hard to get those ideas out of your head and do something better.

I don't care about Christmas, we are going to train on Christmas Day.

You have to stick to your plan. Throwing everything overboard and inventing something on the spot does not make sense. You will never get that from me.

The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.

A planned life is a dead life.

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

The world is not to be approached, blueprint in hand, as if it were so much raw material waiting to be fashioned to someone's design.

But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.

I'm manic about my schedule.

Weekly, monthly, or whatever, I'm just not good with being told I have to finish up according to a set schedule.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.