Quotes About Timing

As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to "be in the right place at the right time, " there isn't anything we can't do, be, or attain.

Tragedy is actually untimely comedy

And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.

Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.