Quotes About Timing

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." The Last Lecture

If other people owe you an apology, and your words of apology to them are proper and heartfelt, you still may not hear from them for a while. After all, what are the odds that they get to the right emotional place to apologize at the exact moment you do?

Luck is what happens when preparation meet opportunity

People's disappointments are God's appointments.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. —Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

People have marveled at the fact that I didn't start McDonald's until I was fifty-two years old, and then I became a success overnight. But I was just like a lot of show business personalities who work away quietly at their craft for years, and then, suddenly, they get the right break and make it big. I was an overnight success all right, but thirty years is a long, long night. I

Too many salesmen, I found, would make a good presentation and convince the client, but they couldn't recognize that critical moment when they should have stopped talking. If

People have marveled at the fact that I didn't start McDonald's until I was fifty-two years old, and then I became a success overnight. But I was just like a lot of show business personalities who work away quietly at their craft for years, and then, suddenly, they get the right break and make it big. I was an overnight success all right, but thirty years is a long, long night.

the R&D department can't get them to work but because the timing is wrong. Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

I realized that most inventions fail not because the R&D department can't get them to work but because the timing is wrong. Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

inventar se parece mucho a hacer surfing: tienes que anticiparte y coger la ola justo en el momento adecuado).

Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.

I tried to play 'Barracuda' on 'Guitar Hero,' and because you have to anticipate and push buttons, it's really counterintuitive.

My two things I always said is, No. 1, I'd be retired by the time I had my first kid, and No. 2, I'd be retired by the time I was 30.

'First to market' is simply a demarcation on a calendar. It really doesn't mean anything.

I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you hear about anybody.

I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen.

Comedy has to be built carefully.

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.

Actors need to learn when their character is front and center and when it's more in the background.

CEOs can stay too long.

There are certain things you have to do to make a pass.

In international football, chances don't come along very often.