Jacqueline Winspear Quotes

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

I hate wasting people's time.

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

I do not keep people waiting. I will always be on time.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

Unpunctuality is a vile habit.

Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

If you don't respect your time, no one will respect your time.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.

Time is our most finite commodity, therefore our most valuable, and I respect other peoples' time.

I am working never to be late again.

All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.

The problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

For me, time is everything, because from the time you wake up you have to have your heart and soul in this. You have to work through the day, you have to go to the gym, you have to eat, and yet you have to work as fast as possible to get home and get rest before the next day begins again.

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

I put my children first, but I always keep my obligations or my commitments. You really have to do some internal work to know yourself, know what you're capable of. See how many meetings you can take a day or how much work you can get through in a day. Give it lots of proper time and respect, but also give yourself the respect of having your downtime, whether that means yoga, pilates, a meditation class, or a cooking class.

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.