Quotes About Timing

If one is approached with a deal predicated on cycles having ceased to occur, remember that invariably that's a losing bet.

We conclude that most of the time, the future will look a lot like the past, with both up cycles and down cycles. There is a right time to argue that things will be better, and that's when the market is on its backside and everyone is selling things at giveaway prices. It's dangerous when the market's at record levels to reach for a positive rationalisation that has never held true in the past.

Is that your wife?" I asked. "Some day, if I play my cards right

Not before the harvest is in, and the mules are rested

Never sell a dull market." I believe that this was intended for bull markets, for it appears just as dangerous to "buy a dull market"—during a bear market.

The trouble with the world is that it's always one drink behind.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Put your dough into the oven when it is hot: After making sure that it is in fact dough.

Andaki: El esfuerzo no es esfuerzo sin ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (tiempo adecuado, lugar adecuado, gente adecuada)

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.

El aspirante a Sufi necesita un guía precisamente porque los libros y textos, a pesar de decirte lo que es necesario, no te dicen cuándo.

Pon la masa en el horno cuando esté caliente; después de asegurarte de que en verdad sea masa.

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

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

Death is a good career move if it can be timed right, and no one ever timed it better than Hank Williams

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

Wait for the moment they least expect.

Your dreams will come true, but only when they're supposed to and not a moment before.

An earlier start can break their spirit; go later and their spirit has already gotten hardened in the wrong place

Fortune favored him… in the opportune moment of his death.

Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.

Because of something she heard in school, Corrie asked her father what "sex sin" was while the two of them were riding on a train together. The father asked the little girl to carry his bag off the train. When she admitted that she could not do so, he said he would not be much of a father to expect this of her. The load was too heavy. This was the case, he said, with some knowledge. She needed to trust her father to give her knowledge at the right time.