Quotes About Pacing

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.

When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there.

I love running. I'm not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate.

I don't write fight scenes in comics all that well. I think they're a waste of space unless they can move a story forward in some compelling fashion. You've only got twenty-two pages to work with. Why throw that away on a set of meaningless punches?

From Day 1 I wasn't planning to run until I am very old.

Planning and reminiscing can be a good thing... in moderation.

I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.

Suspense is a real tough beast in terms of the filmmaking.

Making a movie is like sprinting. Nightclub work is a long-distance event. You have to pace yourself and sustain it for a long period.

You can't do all your homework at the end.

There were always too many hours in the day and never enough in the night.

There's time enough for that.

For pacing, I need to envision my target or risk the wrong rhythm. I may start too quickly and exhaust my back and arms, which will inevitably lead to a bad attitude. Or I may proceed too slowly, which, with the sun beating down upon me, will drain my energy and spirit.

It feels like it's been a long day but it isn't even lunch time yet.

The long mechanic pacings to and fro,The set gray life, and apathetic end.

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.

When you tell a story, there are imperatives of structure, of style, of pacing and all of this, that are there simply because you want to make it a good story. When do you introduce your characters? When do you put them onstage, when do you take them off the stage? How do you weave the different threads of the narrative together?

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

Life is like comedy—it's all in the timing." She

Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

Remember, nobody will think less of you if not all the claws are trimmed at one setting. It's best to stop before your kitten gets peeved, so be satisfied with clipping one or two claws each day.

With comedies, often shorter is better. You don't want to outstay your welcome.