Timing Quotes

This act is an ancient tale new told;And, in the last repeating, troublesome,Being urged at a time unseasonable.

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Wait for the season when to cast good counsels upon subsiding passion.

Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.

Some things you're not letting happen right now because the timing isn't perfect for you. Some you're not letting happen because you are very aware of where you are. But all things, as they are happening, are happening in perfect order. And if you will relax and begin saying, "Everything in its perfect time. Everything is unfolding. And I'm enjoying where I am now, in relationship to where I'm going. Content where I am, and eager for more," that is the perfect vibrational stance.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

The value of actions lies in their timing.

Generally you should act somewhere between P40 and P70, as I call it. Sometime after you have obtained 40 percent of all the information you are liable to get, start thinking in terms of making a decision. When you have about 70 percent of all the information, you probably ought to decide, because you may lose an opportunity in losing time.

Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.

The wrong action done at the wrong time spells disaster The right action done at the wrong time spells resistance The wrong action done at the right time spells mistake but The right action done at the right time spells a miracle

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

People tell me I'm a comedian, but I don't approach acting from that perspective. I do know that everything in life has to do with your timing and perception. You have to be comfortable with the rhythm that you're in. You can't just jump into a fast rhythm if yours is slow. You might have to pick up the pace but in your own particular way. It has to do with personality, too.

When you're having trouble making a decision you're making it too soon.

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

The day of fortune is like a harvest day,We must be busy when the corn is ripe.[Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

My timing is so precise, a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.

The time is always right to do right

It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.

To be premature is to be perfect

If it's raining you can't fix the roof, if it's not raining it doesn't need to be fixed

Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Words, how little they mean when they are too late.

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

I've been saying how I feel at the wrong time.

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.