Giles Deacon Quotes

I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

I've always been the kind of person who leaves parties early to catch the last bus home.

As in life, so with television: timing is everything.

I'm always ludicrously early/on time.

Japan is a country that works well. The trains, buses, and planes stick to their timetables. When you try to change the schedule of anything, it can confuse.

WWE, time-wise, is so strict.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time.

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

I suppose I learned organization from Altman.

Better never than late.

I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything.

In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.

In our business, everything is timing.

There are three things that can be organized: time, space, and work. Note that, despite what many believe, you cannot organize people - you can only organize the work that people do.

Schedule your time. People always ask, 'How do you do it all?' I'm like a walking calendar. I literally make my snacks on a Sunday if I'm traveling on a Tuesday, and I'll pack them before I leave.

I'm usually pretty punctual. I'm not one to like to be late. When I was younger, I was the guy who'd leave the house early if I had to get somewhere and drive around for a while until it got to be time to show up.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time.

Honest to God, for me, I've never been a guy to stack projects. A lot of these other guys, they like to do this and then line up what they're doing next and line up what they're doing next. I just can't do it.