Quotes About Punctuality

he was, sitting in a comfortable car, sweating blood because the man was ten minutes late. He

Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.

I spent five years in Italy, and the Italians have a slightly different lifestyle. Everything is a bit slower and more easygoing. You can feel that when you live there; you become a little more relaxed about typically 'German' things like accuracy and punctuality.

Indian actors are afraid to go and work abroad because people are very professional over there. In India, we have become very lazy. Everything happens slowly, and as per God's will. A 9 A.M. call time means we start working at whatever time we wish.

She had managed to go almost three weeks without being late. Admittedly on two of those days she'd perambulated around the office like someone doing a good imitation of the walking dead - but she'd been timely walking dead, damn it.

let him who keeps regular office hours cast the first stone.

Eleven. I have waited for your awakening exactly an hour, for you asked me to come at ten. And here I am! (85)

I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.

It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China?

Mr. Salton had all his life been an early riser, and necessarily an early waker.

Early to bed, early to rise," Ziggy said. "Early or late

Would you say, "Billy, be home by the time the Earth has rotated enough so as to occult the Sun below the local horizon"? Billy would be long gone before you're finished.

It is in the nature of the universe that the person who always keeps you waiting ten minutes will, on the day you are ten minutes tardy, have been ready ten minutes early and will make a point of not mentioning this.

It's about time! It's supposed to be a ritual, not a marathon.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

Call opened the door before she had time to knock. "You're only five minutes late," he said lightly. "For a woman, I consider that right on time." "Actually, for a woman, it's fifteen minutes early." He chuckled. "Come on in.

The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Observe due measure, for timing is in all things the most important factor.

ALTHOUGH HE had not got to bed until two, Bond walked into his headquarters punctually at ten the next morning.

I had an appointment with a sexual deviant and I didn't want to be late.

Punctuality and showing respect in the workplace are the foundations of success. Success is meaningless without them. I'm always looking to pass these lessons on to younger players, because they are the secret of excelling and developing your game.

My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.