Quotes About Timeliness

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

with me,it is 'better never than late

For once problems are recognized ahead of time, they can be easily cured; but if you wait for them to present themselves, the medicine will be too late, for the disease will have become incurable.

We're celebrating tonight, Ricco said, raising his glass. To our Francesca. May she be followed by the right ones in a very timely manner.

A good plan now is better than a great plan too late.

Delay of justice is injustice.

You might want to get up," he said. "Everyone will be here quite soon to rescue you, and you may prefer to have clothes on when they arrive." He shrugged. "I would, at any rate, but then, I am well known to be remarkably shy.

Laten we ons nergens wat van aantrekken en op de gewone tijd gaan eten.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

I can never afford to be in arrears with anything that I have to do; I must always be abreast or ahead of my tasks.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.

There are many ways in which songs differ from books, but both songwriters and novelists are looking for material that will somehow mean something beyond itself, something that contains echoes and ironies and texture and complication. something both timely and timeless

Follow-through is the cornerstone of execution, and every leader who's good at executing follows through religiously. Following through ensures that people are doing the things they committed to do, according to the agreed timetable.

Wonderful organisation certainly, goes like clockwork.

Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.

Discipline is doing the right thing, for the right reason, at the right time.

There's no reason to hide anything; there's just timeliness of age and what's appropriate.

The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned—is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar—is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment—is this not the mark of the gentleman?" (Analects 1.1)

From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done.

Who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious--is a genius or a hero.