Quotes & Sayings About Timeliness

Somehow it must be made plain that the lawyer's moral judgment is not for hire, that there are occasions when the lawyer ... is under a duty to act as a person of independent ethical concern with obligations not only to his client's interests but also to fairness and justice in the management of affairs. — Harry Jones

As much as possible, connect your offer to the direct benefits customers will receive. Like the Alaska coupon books, a compelling offer pays for itself by making a clear value proposition. What people want and what they say they want are not always the same thing; your job is to figure out the difference. When developing an offer, think carefully about the objections and then respond to them in advance. Provide a nudge to customers by getting them to make a decision. The difference between a good offer and a great offer is urgency (also known as timeliness): Why should people act now? Offer reassurance and acknowledgment immediately after someone buys something or hires you. Then find a small but meaningful way to go above and beyond their expectations. — Anonymous

Timeliness is best in all matters. — Hesiod

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth. — William Congreve

I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing in my tale seemed to surprised the woman. The cat, on the other hand, seemed not to find a word of it credible. — Margo Lanagan

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness. — Jerry Saltz

I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite. — Bill Richardson

The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data ... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree ... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no. — Clifford Stoll

I do not run late. Growing up on a farm, you're just not late when it's time to do chores or go to work. I grew up Mennonite, and so that work ethic and timeliness was just ingrained in me from a very young age. — Greg Brenneman

For time not only moves inexorable forward, as the underlying grid to our personal chronicle, but is manipulated by our psychic needs and natures into various images of timelessness and timeliness. Transient moments suddenly expand, visions of infinity intervene, notes and phrases become outlets of fantasy, escape, recollection, or omen. The music travels on two planes, chronological time and psychological time. Both planes are essential and must be abundantly represented. — Russell Sherman

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know. — Pindar

The first category comprised those for whom books were the only breath of fresh air in their claustrophobic daily lives. His favorite customers. They — Nina George

In season, all is good. — Sophocles

Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness. — Karl Kraus

We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us — Atul Gawande

I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party. — David Korten

No Child Left Behind has diminished [teachers'] sense of control of their own classroom, narrowed the focus of their jobs, and stifled pedagogical innovation. — James M. Lang

If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let them dock or a land in which they can live in peace. The real solution, of course, is to preserve the wild nature that created these animals and has the power to sustain them. But if it is really true that we are inevitably moving towards a world in which mountain gorillas can survive only in zoos, then we must ask whether it is really better for them to live in artificial environments of our design than not to be born at all. — Peter Singer

And that of (the initiation of) any movement is in its timeliness. — Lao-Tzu

Timeliness is an enemy to art. — Anne Bosworth Greene

Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas. — Walter Darby Bannard

Never assume that someone likes you by their sweetNess.Sometimes you are an option when they are bored — Prince Simus

Japanese are one of the most punctual people he had ever worked with. They could, he imagined, put the Germans to shame in their high expectation for timeliness. — Vann Chow

Opportunity is being in God's place, at God's time, following God's instructions, to obtain God's results. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly ... timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend. — Brandon Sanderson

Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness. — Baltasar Gracian