Quotes About Timing

Terry Malick offered me three parts in 'The Thin Red Line.' I was busy shooting other movies while he asked me the first two.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

In England, those qualities of playing it simple, being in the right position, reading the game, knowing the right moment to make things happen around you are not appreciated. Making a tackle, a run into the box - the spectacular things are more appreciated.

As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they're supposed to happen and the way they're supposed to happen.

As always, things happen sooner rather than later on 'Arrow.'

I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.

Things happen when they're supposed to happen.

In football, things happen so quickly.

Whether I'm performing or directing, I'm aways thinking about rhythm; sometimes it's nailing the right rhythm, and sometimes it's intentionally breaking the rhythm. Those two things are what make something funny or not. How long a shot is and where you put the camera are all part of that rhythm of directing.

The chief problem with the individual investor: He or she typically buys when the market is high and thinks it's going to go up, and sells when the market is low and thinks it's going to go down.

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

you show me a man what strikes while the iron is hot and I'll show you a man with a whole mess of third degree burns… Monroe D. Underwood

Falling in love doesn't wait to happen at mutually convenient times.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Remember, the best time to get a new job is when you already have one.

if rents were paid when they fell due, but terrible

So why are you so mad at me for kissing you?" "Because you took too long. If you'd done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn't have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated.

One of the many difficult things about women was that they tended to pick the most unsuitable times to tell you something they considered to be important, and then became irrationally upset when you failed to remember it.

To be popular with girls, a man must do the wrong thing at the right time.