100+ Timing Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Burton G. Malkiel (2015). “A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Eleventh Edition)”, p.168, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Timing

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

- Carol Burnett

topic: Timing, Wonderful, Dharma

Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Perfect, Luck, Timing, Perfect Timing

God's timing is always on time.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Christian, Religion, Timing

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

topic: Waiting, Doe, Timing, Wait For Him, Those Who Wait

I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.

- Cheryl Richardson

topic: Perfection, Timing, Divine

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

topic: Timing, Brooks, Faster

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

- Colleen Haskell

topic: Cameras, Timing, Like You, 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

topic: Real, Helping, Timing, Tender Mercies

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

topic: Two, Photographer, Timing

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

topic: Timing, Subtle, Blunders, Covert

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

- Don Knotts

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Idols, Timing, Masters, Subtlety

Opportunities are never lost, just found by those who clearly see the power of trends and timing.

- Donald Trump

topic: Opportunity, Trends, Timing

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

- Duane G. Carey

topic: Careers, Timing

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

topic: Wise, Waiting, Timing, Appointments

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

topic: Would Be, Lines, Timing

Things come suitable to the time.

- Enid Bagnold

source: Enid Bagnold (2013). “National Velvet”, p.33, Courier Corporation

topic: Timing

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

- Gene Tierney

topic: Actors, Timing, Gary

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

- Hesiod

topic: Important, Timing, Right Timing

Timing was everything when it came to being a womanâ€”the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

- J. Courtney Sullivan

source: FaceBook post by J. Courtney Sullivan from Mar 11, 2016

topic: Fate, World, Timing

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

- Jamie Oliver

topic: Usual, Timing

Good teams beat you with speed. Great teams beat you with spacing and timing.

- Jason Kidd

topic: Team, Timing, Speed, Spacing, Good Team

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

source: "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

topic: Grace, Timing, Individual, Social Graces, Calibration

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

topic: Comedian, Timing, Kind

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

- Jenny Holzer

topic: Genius, Timing, Mark

Keep honoring God with your life, stay in peace, trust His timing and God will open doors that no man can shut.

- Joel Osteen

source: Twitter post from May 3, 2013

topic: Men, Doors, Timing, Praise God

Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last

- John Frusciante

topic: Needs, Lasts, Timing, Bad Timing

The right timing is not always our timing.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Timing, Right Timing

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

topic: Dream, Giving, Timing

love is all about timing

- Karuho Shiina

topic: Love Is, Timing

And he says I have lousy timing

- Kelley Armstrong

topic: Timing

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

topic: Play, Timing

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

topic: Inspiring, Kids, Timing, Timing Is Everything

Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.

- Kevin McKenzie

topic: Ballet, Technique, Timing

Timing in life is everything.

- Leonard Maltin

topic: Timing, Life Is

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

source: "Bad Comma" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. June 28, 2004.

topic: Writing, Sound, Timing

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

- Maeve Binchy

source: Maeve Binchy (1995). “Three Complete Books”, Wings

topic: Art, Knowing, Timing

Good luck and good timing are the same thing.

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

topic: Good Luck, Luck, Timing

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted ...

- Margaret Oliphant

source: Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2376, Delphi Classics

topic: World, Timing, This World

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

topic: Timing, Failing, Currency

What a gigantic step it is not to move.

- Merrit Malloy

source: merrit malloy (2013). “THE COST OF LIVING: The New Work of Merrit Malloy”, p.23, iUniverse

topic: Moving, Steps, Timing

To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute

- Michael Loceff

source: "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

topic: Scripts, Timing, Minutes

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.

- Michael Parkinson

topic: Timing

I honestly think being single's great. Being in a relationship's great. It's all about the timing.

- Mila Kunis

topic: Being Single, Thinking, Timing

There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.

- Miyamoto Musashi

topic: Practice, Timing, Strategy

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

- Myrtle Reed

topic: Time, Way, Timing

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

topic: Cutting, Priorities, Timing

Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Faith In God, Timing

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

- Nick Murray

topic: Games, Fool, Timing

Just because something isn't happening for you right now, doesn't mean it won't happen. God's timing is perfect.

- Nicky Gumbel

topic: Mean, Perfect, Timing

We're confident about a turnaround, but the timing is clearly later.

- Paul Allaire

topic: Timing, Turnaround

Fate carries its own clock.

- Pearl Bailey

topic: Fate, Timing, Clock

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have three basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.

- Richard Armitage

topic: Three, Timing, Makers

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.

- Rick Springfield

topic: Special, Timing

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

topic: Everyday, Musician, Timing

When your timing is off, so is your stride. When your cadence is off, you're in deep trouble as a hurdler.

- Rod Milburn

topic: Track, Cadence, Timing

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

- Sarah Dessen

source: Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.221, Penguin

topic: Differences, Timing, Hours, One Hour, One Minute

Your timing is amazing," Kami told him. "By which I mean, I am amazed by it.

- Sarah Rees Brennan

topic: Mean, Timing, Amazed

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

- Shawn Johnson

topic: Gymnastics, Movement, Timing

Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.

- Shona Brown

source: "Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos". Book by Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Shona Brown, 1998.

topic: Planning, Timing, Plans

Humor is all about timing.

- Steven Heller

topic: Design, Graphic Design, Timing

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

- Steven Van Zandt

topic: Timing, Circumstances

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

- Susan Sullivan

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Movement, Timing, Wave

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a raindance.

- Texas Bix Bender

topic: Outcomes, Timing, Old West, My Cowboy, Cowboy Wisdom

If timing ain't everything, it's damn close

- Tom Peters

topic: Timing

Good timing is invisible. Bad timing sticks out a mile.

- Tony Corinda

topic: Magic, Sticks, Timing, Bad Timing

But my longevity is due to my good timing.

- Tony Curtis

topic: Timing, Longevity

God's timing is always perfect. Trust His delays. He's got you.

- Tony Evans

source: FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Mar 01, 2015

topic: Perfect, Delay, Timing, Mighty God, Confidence In God

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

- Uma Thurman

topic: Austin, Timing, Comic

The most important ingredient for success in the stock market is a sharp sense of timing.

- Venita VanCaspel

topic: Important, Ingredients, Timing

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

source: Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Trying, Lasts, Timing

I'm not very good on timing. In fact, I've stayed away from it.

- Walter Schloss

topic: Facts, Investing, Timing

We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Timing, More Money, Snoring, Market Timing

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

topic: Views, Patient, Timing, Market Timing

A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.

- Warren Spahn

topic: Sports, Upset, Timing

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

- Yvonne De Carlo

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Comedy, Timing, Found

Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Eggs, Timing, Contracts, Timer

Timing is everything in this markets.

- Daniel S. Loeb

topic: Investing, Timing, Financial, Timing Is Everything

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

topic: Vision, Artistic, Timing

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

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: Who You Know, Superstar, Timing, Timing Is Everything

My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing

- Future

source: Song: Kno the Meaning, 2015

topic: Hard Work, Perfect, Timing, Catching Up, Perfect Timing

It's the timing. I don't have to do it [drugs] all the time.

- Future

source: Source: djbooth.net

topic: Drug, Timing

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

topic: Believe, Timing, Nonsense, Market Timing, Good Values

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

source: Source: comicsbulletin.com

topic: Timing, Animation, Ability

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

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Ideas, Tests, Timing

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

source: Source: www.hbook.com

topic: Book, Helpful, Timing

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

- Natasha Josefowitz

topic: Luck, Location, Timing

Learnt a lot like timing, voice modulation from Mohanlal sir. He is perfect in everything.

- Nayantara

topic: Voice, Perfect, Timing

The question of Israeli apartheid was anathema a decade ago. Now it's even talked about by top Israeli officials, who say - they differ on the timing: We say it's already there; they say that if we don't do something different, we're going to face apartheid.

- Phyllis Bennis

topic: Different, Faces, Timing, Anathema

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

- Sanjeev Bhaskar

topic: India, Actors, Timing, Urdu

I think when it comes to Anderson Silva, it comes down to his speed, his distance and his timing are impeccable. They are second to none and that's what makes him dangerous.

- Shawn Tompkins

topic: Distance, Thinking, Timing, Anderson Silva

I feel great. George W.Bush is leaving. We're leaving. It's all perfect timing.

- Al Jourgensen

topic: Perfect, Leaving, Timing

Sometimes it's not that two people aren't right for each other, its more like the timing wasn't right.

- Jasmine V

topic: Two, People, Timing

Sometimes you're timing is good, but they're pitching you really well and you have to adjust. The only way you can do it is if you're in there every day.

- Jose Bautista

topic: Pitching, Way, Timing

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

- Pat Robertson

source: Pat Robertson (1984). “Answers to 200 of life's most probing questions”, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Evil, Timing, Judgment

I know it is unpopular. I know the timing is unpopular. I know the whole thing is unpopular. But I believe it is the right thing.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Believe, Timing, Whole

A lot of amazing comedians that I've worked with just really follow their instincts and you can't really teach someone comedic timing. And you just kind of have it.

- Chelsea Handler

topic: Comedian, Kind, Timing

Don't hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don't worry about timing.

- Linus Torvalds

topic: Worry, Timing, Wells

Trust in Divine timing. Your future holds something far greater than your past.

- Cheryl Richardson

topic: Past, Timing, Divine

Timing has a lot to with art.

- LL Cool J

topic: Art, Timing

Life is learning how to deal with traffic. It requires patience, a good sense of timing, and sometimes not giving in to the traffic but reshaping your life.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Giving, Timing

Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.

- Freya Stark

topic: Timing, Trouble

Don't give me timing, give me time

- Jesse Lauriston Livermore

topic: Giving, Timing, Give Me

My timing is so precise, a heckler would have to make an appointment just to get a word in.

- Phyllis Diller

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hecklers, Timing, Appointments

I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.

- Joel Greenblatt

topic: People, Events, Timing, Macro

Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.

- D. A. Carson

topic: Sex, World, Timing

It is not enough that we are under call or even that we are going in the right direction. The timing must be right.

- Dallin H. Oaks

topic: Timing, Enough, Right Direction

The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.

- Daniel Kahneman

topic: Average, Return, Timing, Market Timing

It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.

- Marisa Tomei

source: Source: www.marieclaire.com

topic: Ears, Timing, Comic

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.

- Gian-Carlo Rota

source: Gian-Carlo Rota (2009). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.30, Springer Science & Business Media

topic: Swings, Timing, Mathematics

Timing is everything with relationships.

- Rashida Jones

topic: Timing, Timing Is Everything

Strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives, even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted.

- David A. Bednar

topic: Strong, Outcomes, Timing, Strong Faith

Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations to be correctly sequenced.

- David Eagleman

source: David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.61, Vintage

topic: Doe, Action, Timing, Sensations

I don't know if I have actually good comedic timing. But I don't think I've worked at any timing. I think timing is probably something you can't work at. Well, I don't know. I definitely didn't work at it.

- Mary McCormack

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Thinking, Timing, Comedic

God doesn't make mistakes and timing unfolds as it should.

- Ashley Judd

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Mistake, Making Mistakes, Timing

Comic timing is something you are either born with or do not have.

- Deepika Padukone

source: Source: www.indiawest.com

topic: Timing, Comic, Born

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Long, Timing, Cliche, Timing Is Everything

I feel like all of my records have potential to be hits. Sometimes it's promotion, sometimes it's bad timing, but yeah I take it very personally. I'm very hard on myself when it comes to my records. I really believe that if it's not number one, I've failed.

- Rico Love

topic: Believe, Timing, Sometimes

Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh?

- Dennis Miller

topic: Abortion, Death Penalty, Timing, Anti Abortion

I did a guest shot on a comedy series where they did 20 to 30 takes of everything. It's just gone by then. The joke is over. It's not funny anymore, and then of course, the editor's the one that has to figure out the timing. I think a lot depends on that.

- Dick Van Dyke

topic: Thinking, Comedy, Timing

Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.

- Melody Beattie

source: Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Believe, Perfect, Timing

I negotiated the proper timing and other things having to do with one of our other debates.

- Donald Trump

source: "Donald Trump transcript: The Republican nominee in his own words". Interview with Philip Rucker, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2016.

topic: Timing, Debate

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.

- Donna Tartt

source: Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

topic: Criticism, Important, Timing

I just don't think [Payne] was the right time to do it, maybe. It was timing, not so much that it was executed wrong.

- Julie Benz

source: Source: www.avclub.com