Timing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
-- Al Ries -
Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
-- Alex Van Halen -
Remember this although timing in life is everything, memorable moments in history don't just happen! Do something...stay positive!
-- Amy Dumas -
Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.
-- Andy Warhol -
I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
-- Anita Roddick -
Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
-- Bernard Baruch -
He is not only a God of perfect time, but of perfect timing.
-- Beth Moore -
I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.
-- Bob Newhart -
Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.
-- Bobby Jones -
In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.
-- Brian Williams -
As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.
-- Carol Burnett -
Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
-- Charles Stanley -
I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.
-- Clara Mamet -
Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.
-- Colleen Haskell -
I testify that the tender mercies of the Lord are real and that they do not occur randomly or merely by coincidence. Often, the Lord's timing of His tender mercies helps us to both discern and acknowledge them.
-- David A. Bednar -
These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them
-- David Hurn -
My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
-- Dawn French -
My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.
-- Don Knotts -
Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing.
-- Donald Trump -
I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.
-- Duane G. Carey -
To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.
-- Emma Caulfield -
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
-- Gene Tierney -
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
-- Hesiod -
Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.
-- J. Courtney Sullivan -
Good teams beat you with speed. Great teams beat you with spacing and timing.
-- Jason Kidd -
Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.
-- Jay Griffiths -
But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.
-- Jay Mohr -
Keep honoring God with your life, stay in peace, trust His timing and God will open doors that no man can shut.
-- Joel Osteen -
Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last
-- John Frusciante -
God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan.
-- Joyce Meyer -
Simon: Anyone ever tell you your sense of timing really sucks? Derek: That's why I don't play the drums. Now what's up?
-- Kelley Armstrong -
Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.
-- Kelly Rowland -
Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.
-- Kevin McKenzie -
Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.
-- Louis Menand -
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
-- Maeve Binchy -
Good luck and good timing are the same thing.
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted ...
-- Margaret Oliphant -
The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.
-- Margaret Thatcher -
To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute
-- Michael Loceff -
Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.
-- Michael Parkinson -
I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.
-- Mila Kunis -
There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.
-- Miyamoto Musashi -
The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
-- Myrtle Reed -
It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And it's about timing as to when make cuts, as well.
-- Nancy Pelosi -
Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.
-- Neal A. Maxwell -
Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.
-- Nick Murray -
Just because something isn't happening for you right now, doesn't mean it won't happen. God's timing is perfect.
-- Nicky Gumbel -
We're confident about a turnaround, but the timing is clearly later.
-- Paul Allaire -
I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.
-- Richard Armitage -
If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
-- Rick Springfield -
Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.
-- Robert Fripp -
When your timing is off, so is your stride. When your cadence is off, you're in deep trouble as a hurdler.
-- Rod Milburn -
Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.
-- Sarah Dessen -
Your timing is amazing," Kami told him. "By which I mean, I am amazed by it.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan -
Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
-- Shawn Johnson -
Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.
-- Shona Brown -
Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.
-- Steven Van Zandt -
My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.
-- Susan Sullivan -
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a raindance.
-- Texas Bix Bender -
Good timing is invisible. Bad timing sticks out a mile.
-- Tony Corinda -
God's timing is always perfect. Trust His delays. He's got you.
-- Tony Evans -
I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
-- Uma Thurman -
The most important ingredient for success in the stock market is a sharp sense of timing.
-- Venita VanCaspel -
One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.
-- Venita VanCaspel -
I'm not very good on timing. In fact, I've stayed away from it.
-- Walter Schloss -
We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.
-- Warren Buffett -
Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.
-- Warren Buffett -
A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.
-- Warren Spahn -
I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
-- Yvonne De Carlo -
Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.
-- Conan O'Brien -
It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.
-- David F. D'Alessandro -
Timing is everything. It is not so much about who you know, especially now with the Internet, because anybody can become a superstar overnight.
-- Frankie Knuckles -
My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing
-- Future -
It's the timing. I don't have to do it [drugs] all the time.
-- Future -
I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.
-- Henry Earl Singleton -
Animation is about timing; movement or lack of movement, often in time with music. These are the tools which make it's visual gags work, or not. Again, comics don't have those tools, so you have to find some sort of parallel to create something that suggests a close approximation of the source material, but without the ability to truly replicate it.
-- John Rozum -
The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.
-- L. Todd Rose -
Mo Willems was so helpful. I had met him a number of times, and I knew from his books how funny he was, of course, but it was really neat to be able to have his feedback. He's so great with comic timing. Working with him was like taking a master class in comic timing, because he could pinpoint right away if a section wasn't working. I remember him saying once, "No, you need a beat between this page and this page," and it was like, oh yeah, of course. I hadn't seen it, but being so good at what he does, Mo noticed it right away.
-- Laurie Keller -
Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.
-- Natasha Josefowitz -
Learnt a lot like timing, voice modulation from Mohanlal sir. He is perfect in everything.
-- Nayantara