Timing Quotes

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

I have to say obviously it is not illegal for people to go to dinner and to socialise and take hospitality off members of the media organisations, but it was the scale and the timing and the frequency of contact that I thought was shocking.

I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.

But I wasn't getting in my pace, staying within myself, I was getting a little rushed. So I think I finally took a couple deep breaths and let myself get my timing back.

Timing has a lot to with art.

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.

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

Timing in life is everything.

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

Timing is everything.

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

But my longevity is due to my good timing.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

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.

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

I'll tell something, a lot of times I'd listen to Charlie and some of the interviews he had and he said, 'Well, yeah, I was a garbage goal collector.' But he knew the timing. I knew where he was.

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.