Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.
early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!
I'm more aware of time. The element of time.
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
I am a man in a hurry.
There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.
Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.
Science has provided us with an alternative called stem cell research …. We’ve lost so much time already and I really can’t bear to wait anymore.
In a special operations mission, the concept of speed is simple. Get to your objective as fast as possible. Any delay will expand your area of vulnerability.
One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.
Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.
Urgency is unbelievably important when you're talking about, not little changes, but big changes.
The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.
I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
I don't need time, I need a deadline.
The President has full responsibility, which cannot be shared, for military decisions in a world in which the difference between safety and cataclysm can be a matter of hours or even minutes.
Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.
Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].
We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.
Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.
You've got to pass legislation fast and not give the special interests time to cut you up.
