Quotes About Timing

Wissen Sie, man kann nicht erzwingen, wiedergeliebt zu werden. Ganz gleich, wie sehr man sich es wünscht. Manchmal hat man einfach den richtigen Zeitpunkt verpasst.

Listen, Lou. They don't give interviews out like bread for ducks, you eejit. This is a big deal. They know you're a mature student, you're applying at the wrong time of year, and they're still going to see you. You can't muck them around.

You know, you can't make someone love you again. No matter how much you might want it. Sometimes, unfortunately, the timing is simply … out.

You know, you can't make someone love you again. No matter how much you might want it. Sometimes, unfortunately, the timing is simply . . . off.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

Well, with luck we'll miss the beginning of the performance.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.

Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.

This is the root of all catastrophe in the family: no one ever knows when to call it a day.

Bad timing can stay bad for a long time.

Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.

When you pass zero to setTimeout, you're asking JavaScript to run your timeout handler as soon as it possibly can — and this leads to your handler running as frequently as it possibly can.

For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter's position, ready to run.

Ask most entrepreneurs who have decided to pivot and they will tell you that they wish they had made the decision sooner.

MÁS ALLÁ DEL «SITIO JUSTO EN EL MOMENTO ADECUADO» Hay un grupo de emprendedores famosos que ganaron millones porque parecían estar en el sitio justo en el momento adecuado. Sin embargo, por cada emprendedor con éxito que estaba en el sitio justo en el momento adecuado, hay muchos que también estaban en ese sitio y en ese momento, pero fracasaron.

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork other times, like a car accident.

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

Johnson ambled over. "Took you sweet time getting here, Malone." "kiss mine, Johnson." The other detective grinned. "No thanks, I've got standards." Quentin hooted at that. The other detective had notoriously bad taste in women.

To assure good timing we need right decisions, patience and persistence. Good timing needs willpower to steer clear of confusion, disorder and … discontent. We need not blame ourselves for possible "bad" timing later on. ( "Wrong time. Wrong place." )

It is the curse of quick words--when one shouldn't respond, they come, and when one needs to speak, they are mysteriously absent.

We'll be slaughtered if we show ourselves now. We won't leave your kits, Graystripe, I promise we won't, but we've got to wait for the right moment to rescue them.

The greatest hunter is one who knows how to wait.