Quotes About Timing

Luck does play a huge role in whatever field you're practicing, whether that's medicine, acting, singing; but the way you make luck work for you is you constantly put yourself in a position to get lucky.

If you face the goalkeeper, you have to wait for him to go and then put the ball in the other side. It's easy to say it but not so easy to do it when you are in the 88th minute of a game. So you must practise.

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.

In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.

'Chicago' is all about precision.

It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

The key for scouting is trying to predict when the player is peaking.

I would've preferred to blossom earlier in life.

There's only so much planning you can do when it comes to pregnancies, y'know.

I planned both my pregnancies, although I guess I didn't think Carter would come along quite as quickly as he did.

I worried because I'd been on the pill for so long and the doctor said to me, 'If you want to have three or four children the chances are you probably won't get pregnant for another year so you should probably start trying now.' We started trying and it happened quite quickly.

In my family, people become pregnant at 33 or something, not 26.

All of the players want to play in the Premier League. I think it's about being in the right place at the right time.

You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning - we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

I found that preparation is everything when you cook.

The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.

It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.

Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.

I was lucky enough to meet someone when I was about 46 and had my first child when I was 48, so I got started late, but I also got all that other stuff out of the way and was at a point where I could be a consistent presence at home.

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of dollar cost averaging or time cost averaging, either one, then you're trying to ease in. But if the market rises more than it falls most of the time, easing in is, by definition, a loser's game.

To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.