Quotes About Timing

Keberuntungan berarti persiapan untuk bertemu dengan momen peluang.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

You can have it all. Just not all at once

Every idiot assumes there's a pressing circumstance about his love that necessitates particular haste, and thereby lays bare the intensity of his love, unwittingly putting a weapon into the hands of his beloved. If his lover is smart, she'll postpone the answer.The moral: Haste delays the fruits of love.

He had long since learned that when somehting unusual was going on, something that was part of someone else's plan and not his own, he would find out more information by waiting than by asking. Adults almost always lost their patience before Ender did.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

Nimeni nu crede niciodat? ceea ce se întâmpl?, decât dup? ce e prea târziu.

after Alvin we would be on board the other boat by now … Didn't

All will come of its own accord in good time and with abundant fullness, so long as one does not attempt to hoard or cling.

Ideas, he knew from experience, arrived in their own good time, dressed exactly the way they wanted to be and saying only as much as they felt like.

Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

It is often dangerous to rush into battle without pausing for preparation or waiting for recruits.

From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done.

Sometimes innovation is a matter of timing. A big idea comes along at just the moment when the technology exists to implement it.

For help with the speech, he called the brilliant scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The West Wing). Jobs sent him some thoughts. "That was in February, and I heard nothing, so I ping him again in April, and he says, 'Oh, yeah,' and I send him a few more thoughts," Jobs recounted. "I finally get him on the phone, and he keeps saying 'Yeah,' but finally it's the beginning of June, and he never sent me anything.

A big idea comes along at just the moment when the technology exists to implement it.

He held himself back for a while, but not for long.

Don't fight over divvying up the proceeds until you finish robbing the stagecoach.

There's a time to wink as well as to see