Quotes About Timekeeping

I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.

Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.

John "Longitude" Harrison was born March 24, 1693, in the county of Yorkshire, the eldest of five children.

If you decide you absolutely must get together, try to make your meeting a productive one by sticking to these simple rules: Set a timer. When it rings, meeting's over. Period. Invite as few people as possible. Always have a clear agenda. Begin with a specific problem. Meet at the site of the problem instead of a conference room. Point to real things and suggest real changes. End with a solution and make someone responsible for implementing it.

I like a few vintage Rolexes, and Panerais are good. I'm not into sports watches - I like chronometers.

I have always been a big fan of watches.

I love watches, the mechanism.

Swiss guys are always exactly on time, but Albanians are not like this.

My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.

And all the way, to guide their chime,With falling oars they kept the time.

Oh, I am a prompt person!

I can't stand being late. I try to be professional. I try not to let people down. But people let me down. That's why I don't rely on anyone to call me. That's why I have clocks as well as people. I have to be able to call myself; it's the only way to be sure.

If you're not ten minutes early where I'm from, my dad chews you out.

Ides" was the name for the thirteenth or the fifteenth, depending on the month's length.)

I am very punctual about time, eating, and work.

And you'll like him, the cobbler, you'll all like him. He has amusing stories to tell and he's much better on dates than I am, and also he goes back much further, having already been a man when I was still a boy. I know we will. Certainly we will. Haj Harun smiled distantly. Well I think I'll come down now. I think it's time we began our rounds. Truly, yes do that. According to the once portable sundial in the front room, it's almost o'clock.

Early is on time and on time is late.

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

I don't know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.

I knew I became a professional when I stop paying attention to what time it was.

I want to get rid of the image that I never turn up on time, because everyone always complains about this habit of mine.

Perhaps we should not be as surprised as the visitor to the American West in the middle of the century who remarked that "In Kentucky, in Indiana, in Illinois, in Missouri, and in every dell in Arkansas, and in cabins where there was not a chair to sit on, there was sure to be a Connecticut clock.

I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!