Quotes of Timing - somelinesforyou

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

- Miyamoto Musashi

“ Fundraising is a matter of presence and timing, and if you've got the presence you can guess the timing. ”

- Mew Parris Nudd

“ Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. ”

- Warren Spahn

“ There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. ”

- Miyamoto Musashi

“ You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. ”

- George McGovern

“ 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. ”

- Matthew

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

- Jack Gould

“ Financial success as a fine artist is largely a product of time, timing and marketing - assuming of course that good art is being produced all the while. ”

- Ken Campbell

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

- Mary Catherine Bateson

“ 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. ”

- Alan Bates

“ Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life. ”

- R. I. Fitzhenry

“ The essential ingredient in politics is timing. ”

- Pierre Elliott Trudeau

“ Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control. ”

- Natasha Josefowitz

“ I am persuaded that luck and timing have, in my case, been very important. ”

- Mike Wallace

“ Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident. ”

- Mery Griffin

“ Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go… And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. ”

- Gloria Naylor

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

- Hesiod

“ Ordinary life, our earthly existence, is often dull. Romance is exciting. Our moments of romance are those when a little bit of heaven seems, thank God, to impinge, to intrude upon our daily lives. I learn for such moments. It is because I yearn for them so much that I generally feel this earth is not my home… ”

- M. Scott Peck

“ The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive. It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao. In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind… ”

- Lao Tse

“ There was this idea, which felt almost like a conspiracy, that a writer in his 30s was early in a writing life. But I realised you should think more in terms of the length and timing of a footballer's career. Your best chance of producing a decent book comes somewhere between 30 and 45, and I suddenly saw my life as a finite number of books. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro
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