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Quotes About Timing

Psychologists have correctly said that "when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance." Barnes
~ Napoleon Hill
most successes are caused by very few "windows of opportunity," failing to grab one can be deadly for one's career.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My declared approach was to try to make money infrequently.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The world is split between those who don't know how to start making money and those who don't know when to stop.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Los sucesos que son no repetibles se ignoran antes de que se produzcan, y se sobreestiman después (durante un breve tiempo).
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Missing a train is only painful if you run after it!
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Epiphanies are never convenient, and often arrive too late.
~ Neal Shusterman
and love is a word used too much and much too soon.
~ Charles Bukowski
if I had met you I would probably have been unfair to you or you to me. it was best like this.
~ Charles Bukowski
to ignore life at the proper time takes a special wisdom: like a Happy New Year to you all.
~ Charles Bukowski
Nessuno trova mai la persona giusta.
~ Charles Bukowski
Their moral position in converting from slave holders to champions of freedom was about like a house cat on a cold night scooting through a closing door just before the latch clacks shut. But sometimes timing is all. A brief moment of history, less than a deep breath, becomes the difference between inside and outside.
~ Charles Frazier
You don't wait and wait for the perfect person at the perfect time.
~ Charles Merrill
Neglecting to ask God's counsel, neglecting to seek God's timing, you step in to *handle* things. And by and by, you've got a mess on your hands.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
If you aren't vigilant, if you aren't daily humbling yourself before Him, seeking His face, discerning His timing, operating under the Spirit's control, you may push and shove and force your way prematurely into that place where God wanted you, but you will not have arrived in His own time.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
La oración me hace esperar. No puedo orar y trabajar al mismo tiempo. Tengo que esperar hasta que termine la oración para actuar. La oración me obliga a abandonar la situación en las manos de Dios; me hace esperar.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
It looks like they're doing something purposeful and coordinated, something vast—a timing channel attack on the virtual machine that's running the universe, perhaps, or an embedded simulation of an entirely different universe. Up or down, is it turtles all the way, or is there something out there that's more real than we are?
~ Charles Stross
The point here is that getting started in time is critical. So when should a hitter start his stride? When the pitcher's lead leg hits the ground.
~ Charley Lau
There's no such thing as luck. Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.
~ Chelsea Handler
Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.
~ Cherry Adair
A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing
~ Chinua Achebe
So do Your work, do it in Your timing, and help us to be faithful while You work.
~ Chris Fabry
Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.
~ Dave Attell
An hour show panics me a lot less than five minutes at the O2. How do you put yourself across and make sure people have a good time in five minutes?
~ Aisling Bea