quotes about Timing Is Everything

“Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.”

“It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.”

Source : Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.248, Penguin

“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”

“I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.”

“Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.”

Source : "Jarvis Cocker: 'Music has changed. It's not as central, it's more like a scented candle'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2011.

“Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available”

Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.182, Spectra

“I had a bad experience on Ned Kelly, which I'd written the screenplay for. I thought: "Well Jesus, if these are the type of people directing movies I might as well direct one myself!"”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

“And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?”

“Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.”

Source : "Book World: 'The Bridge at the Edge of the World'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2008.

“No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.”