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“There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.”

Falsehood Anomalies Promptness

Author:Alphonse Daudet

“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”

Work Business Virtue Entrepreneur Funny Inspirational Subordinates Cardinals Punctuality Punctual Promptness

Author:Don Marquis

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

Inspirational Time Three Hours Minutes Late Too Late Project Management Punctuality Punctual Value Of Time Lateness Tardiness Better Late Than Never Promptness

Book:Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes

Source: Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

Work Virtue Blessing Luck Bored Boredom Time Management Bores Punctuality Punctual Bores You Brideshead Revisited Funny Boredom Promptness

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.”

Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

“The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics.”

Law Science Courses History Evolution Discovery University Physics Phases Requirements Maintaining Continuity Cambridge Enquiry Promptness

Book:Maxwell on Molecules and Gases

Source: Maxwell on Molecules and Gases

“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.”

“Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.”

Men Use Games Grows Nature Born Rich Player Intellectual Property Unions Productions Riches Reasoning Faculty Coolness Promptness

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service.”

People Giving Should Courses Chance Poor Fronts Lifestyle Sophisticated Take A Chance Good Service Promptness Poor Service

Author:Jim Rohn

“I have a promptness problem. I am a promptness-free zone.”

Problem Time Zone Promptness

Author:Ben Affleck