Quotes About Timing

Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespeare is ruined for most people by having been made to learn it at school; you should see Shakespeare as it was written to be seen, played on the stage. There you can appreciate it quite young, long before you take in the beauty of the words and of the poetry.

My dear Mr. Schwartz, you appeared in the nick of time. It might have been a drama on the stage! I am very much in your debt.

On ülisuur viga lasta inimesel näha või kuulda valel ajal. Enamiku inimeste jaoks kaotab Shakespeare igasuguse võlu seetõttu, et nad koolis on kohustatud teda õppima; Shakespeare'i tuleb laval näha, mängituna nii, nagu autor seda kirjutades ette kujutas. Teatris oskate seda üsnagi noorelt hinnata, ammu enne, kui mõistate sõnade ja värsside ilu.

It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Sandra left at five. I don't know if anyone else was around. I'll have to check." Not the kind of answer we like to hear.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

God works things out on his timetable to bring the best results for us too.

The race is not always to the swift." "Nor the battle to the strong.

Ironically, most people submit proposals far too early and far too often. They are actually at the conclusion of the sales process, just prior to a project's launch. When a proposal is accepted, you should be able to begin work immediately.

The things we have most longed for do not happen; or if they do, it is never at the time nor under the circumstances when they could have made us happiest.

diary that night: 'Lessons learned today: Don't make big decisions when tired, lonely, hungry, frightened, ill or at night.

Everyone has their fulcrum, Chiku. You can bend anyone to any cause with the right timing.

I am not cruel," he said. "Not in the sense you mean. But cruelty is a useful tool if one can only recognise the precise moment when it must be used.

Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.

Here's how I operate. When I see something I like, 20 years later, I ask her brother for her phone number. She don't even see me coming.

I was discovered by a photographer. I literally was in the right place at the right time.

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.

I pick and choose when I like to have my moments.

The older I've gotten and the more I've played, I realize there is a time for emotion, but you have to pick and choose those times.

Before, sometimes if the ball was played over my head I wouldn't know where I was but now I feel a lot more comfortable. Sometimes I would be going forward when it really wasn't the right time to go too, but now I'm picking my moments better.

Only great players can have two shots for one ball, like Tendulkar does, and a big reason is that he picks the ball very early.