Quotes About Punctuality

When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

You're late, she said, tapping her watch. No, you're just early.

Everything comes at its appointed moment. —Joseph R. Sizoo

My grandmother used to always say, if you can't be on time, be early.

I cannot recall an instance of anything very dreadful happening at half-past one

There are a lot of people who don't grow limp with hatred when they're kept waiting. I know a whole bunch of people who don't consider the concept of fifteen minutes time at all. So if they say they'll meet you at 11:00 and they show up at 11:25, they apologize (if they remember) for being ten minutes late—the other fifteen minutes never existed and there is some sort of common understanding among most people that those fifteen minutes are a grace period.

Our best work is done when it needs to be.

The civi service is a place where, in the stairs, those who arrive late bump into those who leave early!

I figured this was the easy stuff, and if we couldn't show up on time, looking right and acting right, we weren't going to be able to do anything else.

Early is on time and on time is late.

Greg has never been on time in his life," his mother said. "Ever he was a boy, Greg has always operated on African time." In Africa, many people have a more relaxed attitude towards time than is common in the United States. What an African would consider on time, an American would probably think of as late.

Haste turns usually upon a matter of ten minutes too late, and may be avoided by a habit of being ten minutes too early.

Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off. He grinned sheepishly. That's ridiculous! murmured the Ticktockman behind his mask. Check your watch. And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee.

I've seen people, where if they have to wait around the set for three hours, and they call you at the wrong time, and they're not ready for you, some people don't like that.

For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

WWE, time-wise, is so strict.

One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don't just stand there like an oaf.

While being late in L.A. is common because of traffic, more than 20 minutes is too much.

One of my priorities is getting the trains to run on time, and as a commuter myself I understand all too well the frustration caused by endless delays and cancellations.

Japan is a country that works well. The trains, buses, and planes stick to their timetables. When you try to change the schedule of anything, it can confuse.

That man who is regular and punctual will get sure success in all walks of life.

All office workers are afraid of being late for work.

have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.