We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.
The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.
I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be nicer to one another. It's something we have in our power to do. It reminds me of that Margaret Mead quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.
You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.
Laugh and the world laughs with you!
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