Quotes About Timing

Things culminate when they have to. Work comes to you when you deserve to do it.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

The tap of the backboard, that's a lot of body control, I've gotta be hanging in the air for a quite a bit of time.

Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw me and my sister off to college, and my first novel was published when I was 46. This 'tardiness' isn't something I'm proud of, but I'm happy to be an inspiration to others who arrive at these milestones later than most of us do.

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Hogan began when tastes were changing and people were moving away from clothes that were not so formal: Hogan caught the right moment.

I love fast breaks, and I love playing full-court basketball, but offensively in the half court, I kind of take my time, let guys cut, and let the defense move. Then, if I have a move, I'll go. If not, I'll just hand it off to a teammate.

Every striker wants a teammate with his ability. Adama can cross from anywhere, so you have to be there at the right time to score.

Over the years, I've had teammates who decided to hang it up and I would ask them how they knew when it was time to walk away. The answer was almost always the same: You just know.

We'd have to check into this another time— say, like, the next time we decided to break into a maximum-security prison. Mead, Richelle (2010-05-18). Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 138). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

She can tell if her cornbread is done, and all the rest, by their aromas alone—that, or the angels mumble it straight into her ear. It's not the clock that tells you when it's done; the food does.

God might choose his own time, but Reagan had a taste for coming to the rescue.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

unfortunately, facts are often a lagging indicator of what could potentially be important. By the time you are dealing with a fact on the ground, whatever led to it has already happened.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

I'm not going to breast-feed. I've put this off so long, I'm sure my milk has expired.

Only wisdom can teach us when it's best to say nothing.

Discovering you've missed your tea's perfect drinking temperature by a fraction of a second.

God schedules a birthday, not man.

I have never got over my surprise," Thoreau once reflected, "that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time, too.

The mystery is this: there is one right thing and only one right thing to do at every moment. We can either follow or resist the slender threads.

There are good reasons for the superiority of if/when-then plans: the specific sequencing of elements within the plans can help us defeat the traditional enemies of goal achievement. The "if/when-then" wording is designed to put us on high alert for a particular time or circumstance when a productive action could be performed. We become prepared, first, to notice the favorable time or circumstance and, second, to associate it automatically and directly with desired conduct.

Time is getting on.... Yes, bad luck to it. It always gallops when you want it to walk, and walks when you want it to gallop, like an ill-trained horse.