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Quotes About Timing

Opportunity tends to knock once, then it's gone...temptation, however, likes to stand there and lean on the damn doorbell!
~ Unknown
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
~ Erma Bombeck
If you see a bandwagon, its too late.
~ James Goldsmith
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
~ Mario Batali
Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God. We get overanxious. We try to microwave our own answers instead of trusting God's timing. But here's an important reminder: If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you. There comes a point after you have prayed through that you need to let go and let God. How? By resisting the temptation to manufacture your own answer to your own prayer.
~ Mark Batterson
God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time.
~ Mark Batterson
God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time, but it's up to us to see and seize those opportunities that are all around us all the time.
~ Mark Batterson
When we try to make things go faster, we usually slow things down. When
~ Mark Batterson
God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. But the right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.
~ Mark Batterson
Bad timing can be as calamitous as good timing is fortuitous.
~ Mark Batterson
No te sorprendas si Dios hace que reduzcas la velocidad. No te sorprendas si Dios se interpone. ¿Por qué? Porque te ama demasiado como para permitir que te hundas de cabeza en un problema. Hay algo que nos enseña la burra de Balán y es esto: Dios puede usar cualquier cosa para que se cumplan sus propósitos y puede hacerlo donde sea, en el momento que sea, de la manera que sea.
~ Mark Batterson
Never put a comma where God puts a period, and never put a period where God puts a comma.
~ Mark Batterson
God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. Of course, it often seems like the wrong place at the wrong time. But like a grand master who strategically positions his pawns, bishops, kings, and queens, God is setting you up.
~ Mark Batterson
Sometimes you've got to do the natural before God will do the supernatural.
~ Mark Batterson
I believe that God never overpromises or underdelivers. He always delivers on His promises, but He does it on His timeline!
~ Mark Batterson
Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting.
~ Mark Buchanan
Effective selling is directly tied to timing, patience, and persistence
~ Unknown
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
~ Mark Helprin
Whenever there is chaos and disorganization," Saks observed, "that is the time to make money.
~ Mark Pendergrast
People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
~ Mark Ruffalo
What perfect timing. Amidst all the turmoil caused by humans God sends his/her animal messengers to soothe our troubled minds.
~ Mark Townsend
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.
~ Mark Twain
October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
~ Mark Twain