Quotes About Timing

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

It's not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It's about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

I think it is important to time yourself to make the right choices. It's not responsible to go ahead and say a 'yes' or 'no' on a whim.

I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday. There is no bigger Bob Dylan fan than me. You don't just time the day and impregnate your wife to get your kid to be born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday.

Michael and I both know that had we tried to have a child and get married in the previous time we were together, it probably would not have ended pretty. We both had a lot of growing up to do.

So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

If you think about who retires during their prime, the number of athletes who do that is very small.

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.

There is always a producer within an actor. You just wait for the right time to start functioning as one.

When you get into a production, there are a lot of things you have to hit to make the show work - like my cues or a cue for another person or making sure you don't mess up the beat, and you can let all of that get in the way.

I'm in a profession where if you're planning more than six months ahead, you're doing it wrong!

Hard work most often leads to success, but it's not every day, and it's not every week. It will pay off at different times over the course of your career.

You have to stay open, and things may come at different times, but I have to dream big, and that's what I'm going to be doing.

I think I am someone who is very interested in structure and different ways of delivering jokes.

Comedy is a very difficult thing to do.

One of the most difficult things I find as an actor is to laugh on cue. It is way harder than crying or other emotions. It's sometimes harder than yawning on cue.

Every time there's a dip in the market, we buy. If you don't buy the land right, it ain't going to work.

I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.