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The art of making waiting a thing other people do.
means The habit of arriving or acting at the agreed time, neither early enough to loiter nor late enough to apologize.
from From Latin punctum, 'a point' — the same root that gives us 'point' and 'puncture.' To be punctual was originally to attend to a point, a precise particular, before it narrowed to mean arriving at the precise point in time. So punctuality is etymologically about hitting the dot exactly — the virtue of the pin, not the wander.
- military standard
- ten minutes early counts as on time
- etymology
- from punctum, meaning a precise point
- social signal
- reads as respect before you say a word
- japan's trains
- average delay apologized for at 25 seconds