A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. — Annie Dillard
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. — W. Somerset Maugham
Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop. — Itzhak Perlman
... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time. — Mark Haddon
Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers. — Alice Oswald
The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come. — Sister Parish
As for when to reform the yuan, there is no timetable yet. — Wu Yi
Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself. — Mason Cooley
God has a timetable when seemingly miraculous happens. — Cliffie Stone
God has a way of working on His own timetable. And it usually is a lot different from ours. — Chris Fabry
I have a timetable, but no routine. — Lucian Freud
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Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems. — Anthony of Padua
Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date — Taiichi Ohno
You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time. — Edgar Degas
August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad. — George Monbiot
Working with the right person can make the toughest day go well, and working with the wrong person can make the simplest task excruciatingly difficult. — Scott Kelly
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Do not turn away a poor man...even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you...God will bring you near Him on the Day of Resurrection." — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny. — Coco Chanel
I’m a guy who doesn’t really care about glamour and big markets; I like to be home all day. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone. — Eckhart Tolle
Hey, I drank milk that was a DAY past its expiration date. Now THAT is extreme! — Kurt Angle
Artists who are able to continually create great works throughout their lives often manage to preserve these childlike qualities. Practicing a way of being that allows you to see the world through uncorrupted, innocent eyes can free you to act in concert with the universe’s timetable. — Rick Rubin
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
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
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
Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps. — Patti Davis
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
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
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
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. — Nick Clooney
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
Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled. — Jerry Spinelli
In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities. — Nemanja Vidic
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
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
We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own. — Hill Harper
If responsibility is not in the hands of the Iraqi government, then I consider the responsibility for this event lies with the occupation forces which should either leave immediately or according to a timetable. — Muqtada al Sadr
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
Believe in your work, educate yourself about the business, surround yourself with good people, set goals and timetables and stay focused on them. — Vantile Whitfield
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
I'm trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week. — Erma Bombeck
Technologically we can deliver the ability of parents to be able to log into a school intranet, be able to see what homework has been set or look at lesson planning, whether the child is attending, see what the timetable is like, all of that is possible and there are some schools that are doing it already. — Jim Knight
Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy. — Bill Shuster
I believe that we will succeed in Iraq, because, one, the Iraqis want to live in a free society. And, two, that the Iraqis want to take the fight to the enemy. And people want me to put a timetable on things; that's a huge mistake. Putting a timetable on this - on our stay there in Iraq simply emboldens the enemy and discourages our friends. — George W. Bush
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
If we had about 100 years, that sort of slow cultural conversion would be exactly the thing to do. But physics is calling the tune here. We've got to respond to a timetable that physics has set for us. — Bill McKibben
Generally, I don't attempt to produce a certain number of words a day. The discipline is to work whether you are producing a lot or not, because the day you produce a lot is not necessarily the day you do your best work. So it's trying to do it as regularly as you can without making it - without imposing too rigid a timetable on your self. That would be my ideal. — Chinua Achebe
I think it's a mistake for people to rush out to set out a timetable right now for activating article 50 ... The dust hasn't begun to settle. — Stephen Crabb
If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations. — Michael Gove
I think we bring together that broad coalition including Russia to help us destroy ISIS and work on a timetable to get rid of Assad, hopefully through Democratic elections. First priority, destroy ISIS. — Bernie Sanders
On each side of the war against war, hopes soar, hopes dive, hour by hour now. Resignations abound, timetables slip, and the world waits, mesmerised. I'm off to Melbourne to record an arts chat show. — Margo Kingston
When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying. — Pierce Brosnan
The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight, because I have been saying, for the longest time, that president Bush must set a timetable for removing his head from his ass...and, by god, today they went in and looked for it... They didn't find it. So now we don't know where it is, but at least for once in my life, I get to see the words "Bush", "operation", and "success" in the same sentence. — Bill Maher
President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida. — Jay Leno
It really does seem that the Democrat's problem isn't that they're calling for timetables - it's that they're calling them 'timetables'. You're up against Bush and the Republicans - you've got to bring some zing. Don't call them timetables - call them 'Patriot Dates', 'Freedom Deadlines'... 'Glory Goals'. — Jon Stewart
We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We're just going to stay the course. — George W. Bush
A group of women who valued motherhood, but valued it on their own timetable, began to make a new claim, one that had never surfaced in the abortion debate before this, that abortion was a woman's right. Most significantly, they argued that this right to abortion was essential to their right to equality -- the right to be treated as individuals rather than as potential mothers. — Kristin Luker
There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable. — Will Rogers
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