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Quotes About Timing

At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars, combine to bring about something that could not have happened before and will never happen again. Few people know how to take advantage of these critical moments, unfortunately, and they often pass unnoticed. When someone does recognize them, however, great things happen in the world.
~ Michael Ende
en política las explicaciones siempre llegan demasiado tarde. Nunca debes dar explicaciones ni quejarte. Como mucho, si eres afortunado, lograrás vengarte.
~ Michael Ignatieff
The nice thing about things that are urgent," he liked to say, "is that if you wait long enough they aren't urgent anymore." "I
~ Michael Lewis
Why was it still possible, in 2006, to say something original and important about the events of 1918? Why had it taken nearly a century to see a simple truth about the single most deadly pandemic in human history? Only after three amateur historians studied the various interventions, and the various death tolls in individual American cities, did the importance of timing became obvious.
~ Michael Lewis
F ROM THE SNAP of the ball to the snap of the first bone is closer to four seconds than to five. One Mississippi: The quarterback of the Washington Redskins, Joe Theismann, turns and hands the ball to running back John Riggins.
~ Michael Lewis
The rhythm and the timing follows from the steps the quarterback takes.
~ Michael Lewis
Timing can be everything and wisdom requires the patience to wait as well as the courage to leap when the time becomes right.
~ Michael Meade
I mumble something, Terry J bravely launches into a school reminiscence. TG, with consummate timing, kicks over the urn with Graham's ashes in. From then on, we're invincible.
~ Michael Palin
Failing to be there when a man wants her is the greatest sin a woman can commit - except being there when he doesn't want her.
~ Helen Rowland
There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
~ John Lithgow
I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.
~ Don Rickles
I want to try something on situational comedy.
~ Neena Gupta
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.
~ Mike Birbiglia
We're all different, so even though someone is getting a skill before you, it doesn't mean that you're not good enough; it just means you have to wait a little bit, and the skill will come when it comes.
~ Laurie Hernandez
You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.
~ Billy Joe Saunders
The great skill of investment is to know when the right time is to get out. Getting in's easy.
~ Nigel Farage
I use my mind. I set up blocks. I wait for things to open. I time up things. I use a lot of skill catching the ball.
~ Le'Veon Bell
I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.
~ Alysia Reiner
Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.
~ Josh Billings
If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.
~ Liev Schreiber
I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out.
~ Gillian Jacobs
I'd love to have three or four kids. But my mom always says: "Speak to me after you have your first".
~ Ivanka Trump
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together.
~ Joseph Addison