Quotes About Timing

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Spies have no sense of timing.

Premature action alerts the opposition.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

Don't talk too much or too soon.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.

I decided love was essential. The problem was the timing. Human beings hesitate.

Las respuestas que se esperan con impaciencia siempre llegan cuando uno no está en casa.

Non riusciva a trattenersi. Non diceva mai la cosa che avrebbe dovuto dire. Gliene veniva in mente prima un'altra. Un attimo prima. Ma era più che sufficiente.

An astute trader aims to enter the market during quiet times and take profits during wild times.

That, of course, is always a good time to think—when you know that you are going to have to do something, but you know that you do not have to do it just yet.

That was always the case, she thought: the perfect riposte, the mot juste, inevitably occurred well after the event, and one could not really write to somebody and tell them what you would have said had you thought about it in time.

there is always a very precise moment for words like that to be uttered; then it passes and it is too late. Just as the moment for words like sorry or I love you is a brief one, fleeting and irreplaceable; a moment of liminality, perhaps.

Perhaps they could get married in heaven, if he left it too late. That would certainly be cheaper.

It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.

you have to come of age when it's your time. If you try to rush it or put it off, it only gets you into trouble.

Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.

It was later, after they'd dozed and he'd pulled her into the shower upon waking, that Cooper started on a plan. She laughed at his timing. "I do my best thinking in the shower," he told her, then poured bath soap in his hand and started rubbing her back. "I'm pretty sure I'll think even better if I have something more fun to be washing than my own self." He slipped his hands around to the front, making her squeal, then maybe moan a bit.