Quotes About Timing

Good luck is opportunity and preparedness coming together. Intention will provide you opportunities, but you still need to act when the opportunity is provided. Whenever

Cuando se le pregunta a la gente con mucho éxito cómo ha llegado a la cima, casi siempre está de acuerdo en dos cosas: ha tenido mucha suerte y estaba en el lugar adecuado en el momento oportuno. Pocos pueden explicar qué les llevó al lugar adecuado en el momento oportuno. Pero si consideramos la intuición como una habilidad real, es probable que a la gente con mucho éxito se le dé mejor «sentir» qué camino debe seguir.

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

Be it man or tree or institution, it is better to die too early than too late.

Experience is knowing what not to do and knowing when not to do it.

The experience of Jesus' disciples shows that when we get into the Bible's teaching about things to come, it is easier to ask the wrong question than the right one. We want to ask When? Jesus is more interested in answering Why? and What for?

Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.

Gelegenheit, mit Ihnen zu tanzen, nur, wenn Sie auf der Tanzfläche sind bereits. Im Leben, M

One who laughs last always laughs longest, because he/she gets the joke last.

He ought to be in the minuet of life, but he was still fucking around in the adagio.

I don't show off. I merely demonstrate my abilities at opportune times." - Skulduggery Pleasant

Plans are like buses," he said. "Sometimes they just don't turn up when you need one.

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

Life is too precious to waste it with the wrong person. You're better off alone until the right one comes along.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

A quiet click of the door, then whistling into the wind like an idiot as soon as he'd taken a few steps—thanking the God who'd made him, in the end, so lucky, even if in such a delayed and unexpected way. Some things came to you late, but late was better than never.

In the writing of books, as all the world knows, two things are above all other things essential -- the one is to know exactly when and where to leave off, and the other to be equally certain when and where to begin.