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Quotes About Timing

It's my rule never to lose my temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
~ Sean O'Casey
You would think that Freddy Couples-Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time.
~ Fuzzy Zoeller
Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.
~ Grace Paley
If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.
~ Guy Kawasaki
I came into the world at the right time.
~ Helge Ingstad
Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts.
~ Ilona Andrews
Otherwise, three little words would have leaked from his mouth. And undoubtedly doomed him in ways he couldn't even guess at. Bad time. Bad place. For that kind of thing. Forever.
~ J.R. Ward
The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.
~ Joshua Harris
Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.
~ Judith McNaught
There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.
~ Kenny Rogers
I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.
~ Matthew Henry
Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
~ Michael Caine
Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.
~ Norman Lear
Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.
~ Peter Singer
Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
~ Orlando Aloysius Battista
All sports are time control demonstrations.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
~ Adam McKay
If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.
~ Aaron Levie
My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option.
~ Aaron Sorkin
Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.
~ Alan Parry
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
~ Alexander Pope
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
~ Amelia Barr
Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
~ Andrew Marr
You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.
~ Andy Rooney