Quotes About Timing

Without planning to do so, the triumvirs arrived at the same time.

What was certain, though, is that sheer good luck—the untimely elimination

a messenger arrived with an urgent letter for Octavius, just as he and his companions were going into dinner.

He got you pregnant just when your career was about to take off.

A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.

I go by the rule of Gretzky: you gotta be there before the puck gets there, or you're going to get beat.

The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.

I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.

I think I'm going to pull a Charlie Chaplin and have kids when I'm 60.

If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you're there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly... then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.

We don't pump out albums eight months apart from each other.

You're always just one punch away from getting hurt. But look, if it's going to happen, it's going to happen. I think I'm going to walk out of this sport of boxing when I think it's the right time.

You can have the perfect plan through the first punch but then you have to take the fight second by second.

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

I have to take my time, use my punches, and use the ring.

As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back.

Good conductors know when to push and when to lay back. I've known so many great conductors that I'm still doing what I can to learn the craft of this role.

I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed back because it wasn't the right time.

When you have a coach-in-waiting, it puts question marks into how long you're going to coach.

I have put a date as to when I want my baby... The date has been fixed. Like, as if that's going to happen according to the date we have fixed. But Chay seems to be certain that it will happen on the assigned date.

Sometimes, waiting for too long for the right film may fall flat.

Catching the right fleeting moment, with the right focus, is a very difficult thing to do.