Quotes About Timing

Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.

The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.

There is always a right moment to stop something.

When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word

I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.

It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.

Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

The towers fell, and the first thing that went through my head was my dad's voice: 'Well, you brought a new life into the world, and the world's over. Nice timing, numbnuts!

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market.

One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth—or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world. They

One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world. They have cost stock traders, in the aggregate, enough millions of dollars to build a concrete highway across the continent.

Now, the point is not so much to buy as cheap as possible or go short at top prices, but to buy or sell at the right time.

I never want to buy stocks too cheap or too easily.

That is how I came to learn that even when one is properly bearish at the very beginning of a bear market it is well not to begin selling in bulk until there is no danger of the engine back-firing.

I have found an easy way and I stick to it. I simply cannot help making money. I will tell you my secret if you wish. It is this: I never buy at the bottom and I always sell too soon.

But you don't sell in bulk on the advance. You can't. The big selling is done on the way down from the top.

When you want to get out, get out.

Generally, accurate decisions on accurate time determine the expected outcome accurately; otherwise, failure and sorry become destiny.