Quotes About Timing

I don't try to get all the meat off the bone. When I get a good figure, I just move something. Too many people try to hit the peak price, and they hold on until it is too late.

CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.

I knew we would eventually get back together, but I don't think any of us really knew when it was going to happen. It had to be a situation where all four of us felt like it was time. It's just too personal and too big, with too much history, to do any other way.

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

I got out while they were still fighting to buy tickets to hear me. I believe in getting out when you're on top, and that's what I did.

No matter what poker book you read or poker show you watch, the topic of position will invariably be discussed and its importance stressed.

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

He said it would come down at exactly twenty-three minutes after midnight, and it did. A day is twenty-four hours. Twenty-three minutes after midnight is 24:23.

Whenever you have a job to do ask yourself two questions. If not now, when? If not by me, by whom?

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

Dinner is ready when the smoke alarm goes off.

can easily see that being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else.

we can easily see that being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else.

being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else. Now,

being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else.

the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else.

If it had been a great necessity, if it had been contingents of an army meeting to overwhelm the enemy by stealth, it might not have worked out so neatly. But fate it would seem is a perfect strategist and will work miracles of timing to assist our destruction.

Der Klügere gibt nie nach. Er wartet nur auf den passenden Moment, um zuzuschlagen.

better late than sorry.

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

Judge us not equally, Abraham. We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late.

No wolf falters before the bite, so strike. No hawk wavers before the dive, so swing. No sun pauses before the set, just strike. No rain delays before the fall, just swing.