Quotes About Timing

It takes three weeks to prepare a good ad-lib speech.

Strange how clarity can come at such a time and place, so unexpectedly, so out of the blue, though who's firing the bolt?

El corazón de los humanos no es como el mío. El de los humanos es una línea, mientras que el mío es un círculo y poseo la infinita habilidad de estar en el lugar apropiado en el momento oportuno. La consecuencia es que siempre encuentro humanos en su mejor y en su peor momento. Veo su fealdad y su belleza y me pregunto cómo ambas pueden ser lo mismo. Sin embargo, tienen algo que les envidio: al menos los humanos tienen el buen juicio de morir. - La Muerte

The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.

A veces llego demasiado pronto, me adelanto. Y hay gente que se aferra a la vida más de lo esperado.

I'm ready now." If he'd intervened, it might have

and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time.

A veces llego demasiado pronto, me adelanto. Y hay gente que se aferra a la vida más de lo esperado.

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.

Come at once if convenient—if inconvenient come all the same.

The supreme gift of an artist is the knowledge of when to stop.

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

But the history of science teaches that most discoveries were made by several people independently from each other, at more or less the same time; and this fact alone (apart from all other considerations) is sufficient to show that when the time is ripe for a given type of invention or discovery, the favourable chance event which sparks it off is bound to occur sooner or later.

Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it.

To succeed, however, it must be done early.

Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.

The whole struggle of life is to some extent a struggle about how slowly or how quickly to do each thing.

I am always late. If I arrived early, my hostess would faint.

It's strange the times people choose to be generous.

It's strange the times people choose to be generous.

Nothing prayed for – it is life's strictest and least graceful rule – comes to you at the time of praying.

He who hesitates is usually fucked!

The most important things to remember about backstory are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting. Stick to the parts that are, and don't get carried away with the rest. Life stories are best received in bars, and only then an hour or so before closing time, and if you are buying.

But mostly it's about pacing yourself when you do these movies.