Timing Quotes

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

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

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.

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

Timing has a lot to with art.

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.

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.

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.

Timing is everything.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

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

I love the idea of "the one" but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all 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.

There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

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.