Quotes About Timing

I never really saw myself as a standup comedian. I always just thought of myself as someone who used the eight minutes or 10 minutes she was allotted and had a blast.

Standup is like shorthand. Every bit must be both brief and profound or the audience will lose interest.

I'm glad that I didn't get a part in 'Scream 2' and become a star in 1995.

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.

At different times in my life, I've made grand statements like, 'I want these many kids, and I want them by this age.' I think, with every year that goes by, I accept that I don't know when it's going to happen or how it's going to happen. I'll just take it one day at a time, and when I'm ready, I'll be ready. It'll reveal itself, I guess.

I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.

You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.

That's the hardest part of the game. You've got to stay focused. With golf, make a mistake and you get another shot straight away; but with snooker you could be five minutes before you get another chance.

When I look back, maybe I would change some things. Maybe the move to Germany was too early and I should have stayed at Chelsea a bit longer.

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

I am a firm believer of staying the course, you can never time success or being in the right place at the right time. But you can sure work on creating multiple opportunities for the same.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.

Michael Bisping, in one of his last fights, he stepped out there too soon. He had a brutal fight with Georges St-Pierre and then real quick jumped in against Kelvin Gastelum and just got put away. If you do that, if you step out there too soon... this is your livelihood.

God does not always move us when we desire to be moved, and everything that moves us deeply is not God.

Why do we ask the important questions after they've been answered?

The slowest kiss makes too much haste.

That way everybody has time to get something to eat before we start. I've found it makes them less peckish.

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.

Eva turned to face him. "I'm so sorry." "No, I'm sorry. That's what I came to New York to say. I'm sorry I broke my promise. And I'm sorry I didn't find you the second I was released. But by then, you'd published your first book. You were a success, and I didn't want to ruin it. Back then, I was convinced that I ruined

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.