Quotes About Punctuality

For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It's important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it's really unfair to make them wait.

I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.

Better never than late.

I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.

When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature. The boat at St. Petersburgh, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime. When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

School busses...Won't even give us a chance to be late for school...Never be late again in all our lives. Think of that nightmare,Doug, just think it all over.

exactitude in some small matters is the very soul of discipline.

Charles Dickens dijo: "Nunca podría haber hecho lo que he hecho sin los hábitos de puntualidad, orden y diligencia, sin la determinación de concentrarme en un único tema cada vez".

It's unseemly to be late to your own funeral.

The audience has been lined up for over an hour already, and I know from experience that an audience's willingness to enjoy your show is inversely proportional to the amount of time you keep them waiting past the time on the ticket, which is, in this case, 8 p.m.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

Time is only a state of mind, so being late is only a thought one can posess.

Be careful of your word, even in keeping the most trifling appointment. But do not blame another for a failure of that kind till you have heard his excuse.

I simply cannot understand unpunctuality. Why should anybody be late? I know exactly how long it takes me to dress.

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.

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental wellbeing and not being more than say five minutes late. It

I think it was just before half past ten.

Get me to the church on time!

I basically like a bit more control. Even in my personal life, I need things to be done on time. If it's not done, I get impatient.

I admit my pet peeve is waiting on someone. I pride myself on being on time.

People in Philly are always late.

I get out of bed, brush my teeth, wash my face, put on moisturiser, put on clothes, and leave. Four minutes. I like to shower at night so I can roll out of bed.

Good parents are always on time. So are good CEOs.