Quotes About Timing

With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

People often ask me why don't you have a girlfriend. Then I smile and say: I have thousands some just haven't met me yet

No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.

The God knows when to smile.

You're always going to be too young for something important to you, too old for something else, and the timing is just not going to be right for a third set of things. That's life, and you can make yourself crazy by dwelling on that. Or you can figure out what you are the right age for, and what the timing is right for, and celebrate those things.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Un plan prost executat la timp este mai bun decât un plan genial pus în practic? prea târziu.

It takes great skill to do the right thing at the right time.

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

Never run advertising until the major publicity possibilities have been exploited.

A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

A danger of travel is that we may see things at the wrong time, before we have had an opportunity to build up the necessary receptivity, so that new information is as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

The issue of how to cede to seduction is tortuous: too soon and one may appear unworthy, too slow and one may lose the interest of the partner.

Most of what makes a book good is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Moi je veux pleurer maintenant, pas après ! Je veux être le premier parce que si je pleure après les autres comment on saura que moi aussi j'ai pleuré ?

I never answer that question until after I've done it.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Child, you know nothing about war. You think it's big and it's loud and it's good versus evil. It's not. War is a delicate thing: it requires precision. It requires timing.

I wish I would have known you earlier so I could love you longer. - Derek Miles

Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is far more valuable... It means being a little bit wrong at just the right time.

Do you love him? I shook my head. "I love you," I said, before I could stop myself. He looked away from me. "A little too late for that, isn't it," he said, and I winced, wishing I'd kept my feelings to myself.