Quotes About Timing

Este teléfono sin contestador, la llamaré mañana, hoy se me hizo tarde, esta forma tan cobarde de no decirnos que no.

For all things there is a place and time.

The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

The wise speaker first learns when to stay silent

I believe that, magically, the book we are supposed to read somehow appears in our hands at just the right time.

A watched pot never boils

but it seemed too early for gossip, like going on vacation and buying a house on the first day.

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

Month after month, the Russians, bearing the brunt of war, had waited. The Anglo-American landing did not come until June 6, 1944, when the Russian army had already liberated most of the USSR and was driving across Poland. Many Russians had bitterly wondered whether the Allies delayed so that Russia might take the loss, and landed at last in Normandy because they could not afford to let Russians take Berlin alone.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

Really? Brilliant. Thanks, Don.' 'Listen. If you're coming up, leave it for at least an hour or two,

It's always about timing. If it's too soon, no one understands. If it's too late, everyone's forgotten.

Every creative act involves a leap into the void. The leap has to occur at the right moment and yet the time for the leap is never prescribed. In the midst of a leap, there are no guarantees. To leap can often cause acute embarrassment. Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act—a key collaborator.

There were eleven months between me and Liam. We came out of her on each other's tails; one after the other, as fast as a gang-bang, as fast as an infidelity.

When people quit on time, it will usually feel like they are quitting too early, because it will be long before they experience the choice as a close call.

Quitting on time will usually feel like quitting too early. If you quit on time, it's not going to seem like anything particularly dire is happening at that particular moment.

The corollary of this is also true. When people quit on time, it will usually feel like they are quitting too early, because it will be long before they experience the choice as a close call.

Quitting on time usually feels like quitting too early, and the usually part is specifically when you're in the losses.

Quitting on time will usually feel like quitting too early. If you quit on time, it's not going to seem like anything particularly dire is happening at that particular moment. That's because quitting is a problem of being able to glimpse at the range of ways the future might play out and see that the likelihood that things will turn out poorly is too high to make it worth your while to continue.

Il « devrait » appeler ce soir : en général, il le fait trois jours après la dernière rencontre. Mais le « devoir », la « régularité » n'ont pas vraiment leur place ici.

Women fall in love on the date, and men fall in love after the date.

Certain people get an opportunity because they happen to be in the right place at the right time. It has no bearing on their talent. I don't think we should look at it and feel bitter about it. That's the way the cookie crumbles in all professions.

Certain projects find you at the right time.

I was offered the Kovalev fight in 2018 but my manager and promoter agreed it wasn't the right time for me to be challenging for a world title then. I needed a few more tuneup fights, learning fights, and I'm fine with that.