Timetables Quotes

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

W. Somerset Maugham

Funny, Book, Reading

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If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

Lee Iacocca

Education, Business, Procrastination

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Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Target, Used, Periods

"PBS NewsHour", October 26, 2006.

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Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.

James Cameron

Rejection, Feelings, Target

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If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

Herman Cain

Government, Obamacare, Trying

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Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

Jan Schakowsky

Iraq, Troops, Withdrawal

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Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Nick Clooney

Mistake, Iraq, Troops

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Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.

James T. Walsh

Home, Fighting, Order

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As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable.

Howard Coble

Military, Years, People

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... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

Mark Haddon

Lost

Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.195, Random House

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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

Clifton Fadiman

Birthday, Wall, Years

Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.

Shirley Manson

Sick, Honest, Being Honest

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At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq.

Christopher Bond

Iraq, Momentum, Withdrawal

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No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

Douglas Hurd

Military, War, Successful

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Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry.

J. K. Rowling

Glasses, Sky, Two

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Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.

Sterling W Sill

Mother, Writing, Generosity

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Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

William Hague

World, Opponents, Conflict

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There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.

Amy Grant

Way, God Heals, Formulas

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Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

Neal A. Maxwell

God, Faith, Patience

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Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as all the therapists tell us, but they do not obey some great unseen timetable.

Bel Mooney

Grief, Ill Health, Sorrow

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We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own.

Hill Harper

Healthy, Different, Realizing

"On Love: Building meaningful relationships in black community". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 30, 2009.

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The failure to establish a new Status of Forces Agreement in Iraq, and the election-driven timetable for withdrawal, surrendered our gains in that country and led directly to the rise of ISIS.

Donald Trump

Country, Isis, Agreement

Source: www.npr.org

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Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.

Itzhak Perlman

Music, Different, Talent

"Pearls of Wisdom". Las Vegas Sun Interview, lasvegassun.com. January 1, 2005.

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Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.

Jerry Spinelli

Feelings, Calendars, Happens

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I have a timetable, but no routine.

Lucian Freud

Routine

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