Quotes About Timing

The course of a life can be changed with some well timed, lovingly asked, honestly answered questions.

I have faith that all is well, that all good things come to me in Divine timing. I can relax and surrender to the truth that I am divinely guided and cared for.

Don't worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place.

I am old. I should have left before. Any fool can ride the chariots of victory. It takes judgement to get off at the right time.

Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.

If there is one thing above all others a successful man should know, it is when to stop.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

It's always about timing. If it's too soon, no one understands. If it's too late, everyone's forgotten.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

I'm not the quickest guy in the world, so I figured if I beat a guy off the dribble, I kind of want to get my space and get my shot up fairly quick - not rush my shot or anything, but just get to my spot where I can make it and they have no chance of contesting it.

I can block, I can catch and I can run. It's about being in the right spot at the right time.

You talk about winning championships, well championships are won by 12 guys, the organization, being in the right spot at the right time.

In my old age, I've learned that if I put the right cymbal crash in the very right spot, exactly, it can be as powerful as all my showoff drum rolls in my 20s.

I have to do a better job of picking the spots where I want to attack and picking the right moment when I need to attack.

Shane Johnson and I coincidently went to Whitman College. This is notable because Whitman is teeny-tiny, with only 1,200 students. He graduated the spring before I started, so we didn't know each other.

You're just trying to work on things in Spring Training, try to put the barrel on the ball and not peak too early.

Cutting VAT is a classic case of shutting the stable door, when the horse has already galloped a couple of furlongs down the road.

The first rule of show business is get off the stage while people still want more.

As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

There's so much pressure to be at a certain level in your job and at a certain place in your life, but if everyone was doing things at the same time, then life would be so boring. Everyone reaches different stages at different times.

Whether I use the long kick all depends on the moment, only at certain stages of the game.