Quotes About Timing

Todas las personas que entran en tu vida lo hacen precisamente en el momento en que más necesitas aprender la lección que han venido a enseñarte.

Be humble. Live with what the eastern sages called the beginners mind. Remember that everyone who enters your life has a story to tell and a lesson to teach if you have the wisdom to be open to it. Also remember that everyone who comes into your life does so exactly the right time to teach you the lesson you most needed to learn.

Uop?e ne sumnjam da smo se susreli s odre?enim razlogom. Život to tako uredi. Svi koji su ušli u tvoj život, došli su upravo u trenutku kada ti je njihova pouka bila najpotrebnija.

luck is nothing but combination of preparation and oppurtinity

when 'one leads a nomadic life, as I do at the moment, it is not easy to do everything at the right time'.

Please ask for payments as needed from time to time, not all at once.

Davison had an uncanny gift in sensing the proper moment for changing the topic, for giving the discussion a timely new turn, thus avoiding a clash or deadlock.

He believed there was a time to think and then a time to act.

If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on.

You need infinite patience. No use fretting or worrying. You just wait. Doing nothing, thinking nothing, burning no energy. Then you burst into action. After an hour, five hours, a day, a week. Waiting is a skill like anything else.

Second conclusion: If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on. I think the person who said that to me

Second conclusion: If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on.

The Python was a double-action weapon, which meant the same trigger pull cocked the hammer and then dropped it, so he started early, getting the cylinder turning while the gun was still moving, seeing the hammer come up, feeling the cams and the levers, waiting, then firing, trusting millisecond timing and momentum and deflection and complex four-dimensional calculations.

I counted off seventy-two seconds, which represents a mile at fifty miles an hour.

Second conclusion: If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on. I

was slow, so we took a chance and got out again back

The shorter the time, the cooler you have got to be. If you've got only one shot, you've got to make it count. You can't afford to miss because you screwed up the planning.

He knocked on the door and waited. He counted the seconds in his head. He had knocked on a lot of doors. He knew how it worked. One, they hear the knock, two, they get up off the couch, three, they thread around the clutter, four, they step to the door, five, they open it. The door opened. A guy stood there. On his own, with silence behind him. The

Better to hit her now. She thinks her job is done. She's coming down off a high. Her adrenaline is low. She'll be braver in the morning." Bishop

You can aim at a duck and get it in your sights, but the duck is always moving. In order to hit the duck, you have to move your gun. But a committee faced with a major decision can't always move as quickly as the events it's trying to respond to. By the time the committee is ready to shoot, the duck has flown away.

The trouble with you, Phil, is that you went to Harvard, where they taught you not to take any action until you've got all the facts. You've got ninety-five percent of them, but it's going to take you another six months to get that last five percent. And by the time you do, your facts will be out of date because the market has moved on you. That's what life is all about—timing.

All folks have a Big Ben in their brain that determines how receptive they are going to be to you and your ideas. When you mess with their internal clock, they won't listen to you. No matter how interesting your information, or how pleasant your call, bad timing means bad results for you.

Starting kids reading before they're ready can actually boomerang and turn them off to reading

She holds up a finger. I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.