Quotes About Timing

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

God will wait as long as it takes for us.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

To many fame comes too late.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

He who hesitates is last.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.

God does not pay weekly, but he pays at the end.

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

Super Tuesday is the day on which most states hold their primaries. Its darker partner is Dirty Tricks Thursday: the Thursday before an election when candidates release scandalous stories to garner bad publicity for their opponent: the timing means the accused will have little time to refute the allegations.