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Quotes About Timing

I was working up the courage to knock." "I don't look that bad in the morning." "It's pretty early. I wasn't sure you'd be up.
~ Shannon Stacey
This is the team that when you look at it, you say, 'This is our time.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.
~ Sharon Creech
Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.
~ Sharon Creech
Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.
~ Shashi Tharoor
The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low.
~ Peter Cundill
There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It's a matter of balance.
~ Peter McWilliams
I really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.
~ Octavia Spencer
Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.
~ Ovid
The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.
~ Ray Brown
I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!
~ Renee Olstead
Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.
~ Richard Briers
I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.
~ Richard Masur
I don't tend to say it's time for one of this or that genre. Things flow to you in a strange way, and why you bump into a certain kind of thing in one moment is...it's hard to explain.
~ Edward Norton
I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time.
~ Emily Blunt
Coming up with a funny joke is like falling in love: It can hit you any time, anywhere. Having said that, the more you put yourself out there, the better your odds will be.
~ Emo Philips
You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.
~ Erin Morgenstern
I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time
~ Ethel Merman
Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.
~ Francis Cornford
There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.
~ Gabriel Iglesias
Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Home runs usually come in bunches for me. If I'm feeling good and I'm on time, I can drive the ball even more.
~ Garrett Atkins