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Quotes About Timeliness

Sometimes we have a match at 11 in the morning, sometimes at 9 P.M. We need to always be adapting; we don't have a match at the same time every week, so it's important to be open with everything.
~ Stan Wawrinka
Maxims Hidden in the Text Try, fail, analyze, adjust, try again. John Maynard Keynes cycled through these steps ceaselessly. 178 An imperfect decision made in time is better than a perfect one made too late. 215-216 Plans are merely a platform for change. Israeli Defense Forces slogan. 222 If we ask many tiny pertinent questions, we can close in on an answer for the big question. 263
~ Philip E. Tetlock
An imperfect decision made in time was better than a perfect decision made too late. Ref. German mission command.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
I am the kind who is always on time while shooting.
~ Ashish Sharma
I eat at certain times. I got to leave the house at certain times. I shower at certain times before the game.
~ Rajon Rondo
Nowadays there is really only one habit of highly effective people: Don't fall behind with email.
~ Jonathan Franzen
The earlier you intervene, the less likely that people will get defensive. The more real-time and specific your feedback is, the easier it is for people to receive it and learn from it. The
~ Jonathan Raymond
One thing I have learned over the years, when you're trying to pursue a coach and there is a coach out there that you think is the right fit, you can't wait around. You have to act, you have to act quick because there are a lot of people looking for good coaches.
~ Joel Glazer
I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
~ Garth Nix
There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to change your hair from straight to curly or up to down. Sometimes it can't be avoided.
~ Gina Bellman
Better never than late.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Generally, there's a correlation between good work and good reviews. In the very odd, very rare case that they say it's terrible, but actually you're a genius who is ahead of your time, you are going to just have to suffer.
~ Tim Minchin
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.
~ Warren E. Burger
As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead freed his mind from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Roosevelt seemed to feel," Harrison remarked, "that everything ought to be done before sundown.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
I'll take care of it,' said Richard Crawford quietly, and Lymond lifted his head. 'Oh, Richard. Timely as ever. I want.…' 'I know what you want,' said Lord Culter comfortably, and hooked an arm under his brother's stained shoulders. 'I doubt it,' said Lymond drily.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
A word in season is most precious.
~ Aesop
If you feel like you can't throw a party, just put a timeline together. There are always little things you can do ahead of time - like washing and pressing linens and bringing out your tableware. Check them off as you complete them.
~ Tiffani Thiessen
We must look at all the support a person needs and its timeliness and accessibility.
~ Penny Mordaunt
Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.
~ Diadochos of Photiki
The time is always right for the right thing.
~ Debasish Mridha
Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.
~ Harold Geneen
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
~ Salman Rushdie
Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.
~ Lee Iacocca