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SALISBURY: O, call back yesterday, bid time return ….

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 70 (3.2.50) (1595)

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Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 70 (3.2.50) (1595) - Shakespeare, William | WIST Quotations

SALISBURY: O, call back yesterday, bid time return .... Telling Richard it would have been great if the king had returned from his Irish wars a day earlier, because yesterday his expected army of Welshmen went over to Bolingbroke's side, having heard a rumor that Richard was dead.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 22

A quotation from Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Attributed in Richard Dawkins, “A Lament for Douglas Adams,” The Guardian (2001-05-13)

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Front Page Oct 2

The surprising reason why some people are always late and some are always early

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/experts-explain-the-planning-fallcy

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Aug 29, 2025

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural to suppose, that as much as has been done to-day may be done to-morrow; but on the morrow some difficulty emerges, or some external impediment obstructs. Indolence, interruption, business, and pleasure, all take their turns of retardation; and every long work is lengthened by a thousand causes that can, and ten thousand that cannot, be recounted. Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker’s mind. He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualties.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, “Pope” (1781)

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ChuffMeister Aug 22, 2025

#ADHD #Lateness #Timeblind #Intergenerational #Trauma
Reference to but no details of violence to child and its effects in adult.
https://open.substack.com/pub/chuffmeister/p/adhd-lateness-anxiety-intergenerational?r=18q348&utm_medium=ios

ADHD Lateness Anxiety – Intergenerational Trauma?

Like many people with #ADHD (Probably #ASD) I have anxieties around time.

WIST Quotations moves again!Oct 11, 2024

A quotation from Eliot, George:

«
It’s but little good you’ll do a-watering the last year’s crop.
»

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https://wist.info/eliot-george/72480/

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WIST Quotations moves again!Oct 9, 2024

A quotation from Adams, Douglas:

«
What I love the most about deadlines is the whooshing sound they make as they go by.
»

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https://wist.info/adams-douglas/444/

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#procrastination #schedule #time

Attributed in Richard Dawkins, "A Lament for Douglas Adams," The Guardian (2001-05-13) - Adams, Douglas | WIST Quotations Quotations

What I love the most about deadlines is the whooshing sound they make as they go by. Memorial to his friend, Adams; later collected in The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

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WIST Quotations moves again!Mar 12, 2024

A quotation from Tennyson, Alfred, Lord:

«
Come, my friends.
‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
»

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https://wist.info/tennyson-alfred-lord/12072/

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"Ulysses," ll. 56-62 (1842) - Tennyson, Alfred, Lord | WIST Quotations

Come, my friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.

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anemoi Nov 5, 2023

"The first.. is the perfectionist—who.. won’t leave the house until everything .. is as close as it can be to flawless. The second is the crisis maker, who thrives off the pressure and adrenaline rush of a time constraint..The third, the defier, is late as a means of rebelling against existing societal constructs or a broader authority..And the last is the dreamer..who often underestimates travel time or attempts to fit many tasks into an unrealistic window."

#lateness

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/06/can-you-cure-lateness/485108/