Timing Quotes

“Maybe no good timing means there's no bad timing either.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“If people have tasted the convenience, ease, and time-saving effects of a product, they won’t go back.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“If you want to go big in the business world, you need to have the right product at the right time.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“If you wait till you know everything it's too late”
― Warren Buffett

“Timing is critical to a successful product launch.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“There is a curious phenomenon in Western intellectual life, namely that of being right at the wrong time. To be right at the wrong time is far, far worse than having been wrong for decades on end. In the estimation of many intellectuals, to be right at the wrong time is the worst possible social faux pas; like telling an off-colour joke at the throning of a bishop. In short, it is in unforgivable bad taste.

There was never a good time, for example, to be anti-communist. Those who early warned of the dangers of bolshevism were regarded as lacking in compassion for the suffering of the masses under tsarism, as well as lacking the necessary imagination to “build” a better world. Then came the phase of denial of the crimes of communism, when to base one’s anti-communism on such phenomena as organised famine and the murder of millions was regarded as the malicious acceptance of ideologically-inspired lies and calumnies. When finally the catastrophic failure of communism could no longer be disguised, and all the supposed lies were acknowledged to have been true, to be anti-communist became tasteless in a different way: it was harping on pointlessly about what everyone had always known to be the case. The only good anti-communist was a mute anti-communist.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

“Law 35: Master the art of timing

“Never seem to be in a hurry – hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself, and over time. Always seem patient, as if you know that everything will come to you eventually. Become a detective of the right moment; sniff out the spirit of the times, the trends that will carry you to power. Learn to stand back when the time is not yet ripe, and to strike fiercely when it has reached fruition.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“We live, after all, in the present: the present is inevitably the context for our reaction and response, and it matters. Yet one of art’s most compelling features is how it showcases the disjuncts between the time of composition, the time of dissemination, and the time of consideration—disjuncts that can summon us to humility and wonder. Such temporal amplitude understandably falls out of favor in politically polarized times, in which the pressure to make clear “which side you’re on” can be intense. New attentional technologies (aka the internet, social media) that feed on and foster speed, immediacy, reductiveness, reach, and negative affect (such as paranoia, anger, disgust, distress, fear, and humiliation) exacerbate this pressure.”
― Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

“Let the Holy Spirit prepare the outside platform for you while you remain in the secret place and hide there. Let Him be the One to call you out at the appropriate time.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“I don’t remember the particulars but when he [Dr. Hichiro Shimanuki, aka ‘Shim’] was nearly finished he offered an observation that was, for the most part, missed by the majority of those present. … Answers and dogma, went the feeling, saves bees, money, and time. … Shim’s observations were, however, profound, and any beekeeper who listened carefully to his challenge is probably doing quite well today.

Basically, his observation was this: He called it the Rule of Rights. — If you produce the right number of bees that are the right age and the right condition, and are in the right place at the right time, you will be successful.

The complexity of achieving this goal is well hidden in the simplicity of his statement. But to accomplish this requires making intelligent and correct decisions based on sound planning, correct timing, and getting the balance of business and biology to work in an operation. There’s little how-to hidden within this simple statement. Rather, it is a goal to strive for in many ways. It is, in the real world, not easy and it is not often that it will be achieved.

[From the ‘Introduction.’]”
― Kim Flottum, Better Beekeeping: The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Stronger Colonies and Healthier, More Productive Bees

“But is the timing of a thing supposed to be everything?
I do, I do want all my ends and beginnings to be with you.
But are you supposed to be one brick in the wall of my life and not the brick that completes it?
Are you supposed to be one chapter in my book and the insignificant corner of my jigsaw puzzle?
Did you and I collapse into each other for this one big pool of tears?
Or is there more to it?
I still think we could make the world a better place together and be strong for each other, and go till the ends of the world with each other.
But at what cost?
Please don't say at the cost of our peace.
Because that's when you will give up and that's when you'll break my heart.”
― Insha Juneja, Imperfect Mortals : A Collection of Short Stories

“There is always enough time to get things right the first time”
― Fela Bank-Olemoh

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

“People love to attribute success to hard work, and that’s a huge part of it. Most things don’t happen by accident and are the product of effort. But so much relies on good timing, whether that’s being in the right place at any given moment, being uniquely positioned for an opportunity, or just connecting with another person at the exact right time for them, in their lives, too.”
― Adam J. Kurtz, You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“There's no such thing as a bad idea - only an idea that isn't fully formed, fully realized. The great ones find a way of holding on to these little half-formed snippets of art and truth and moment and find a way to slow them in when the time is right, when the thought is finished. Some songs, they're like fine wine, or a bourbon that still needs to age. Sip from that glass too soon, and you won't taste the full effect. Best to let it sit until the right moment - to let it breathe ... until all these moving parts come together in just the right way.”
― Steve Aoki, Blue: The Color of Noise

“Dream as if it were your last dream.
Think as if it were your last thoughts.
Create as if it were your last art.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Puzzelstukken uit diverse periodes, die onverwacht en onverhoopt opeens in elkaar schuiven. Zo moet het zijn om jazz te spelen. Uit de brij valt plots dat ene verscheurende akkoord, zonder repetitie en toch volmaakt getimed. Getoonzet door een genadig toeval. In dank aanvaard door de geduldige muzikant.”
― Tom Lanoye, Sprakeloos

“In the sensual world, we are not governed by the principle that says ‘time is money’. But we believe that time is feeling, and therefore it is through feeling that we attract money.”
― Lebo Grand

“In the sensual world, we are not governed by the principle that says ‘time is money’. But we believe that time is feeling, and therefore it is through feeling and desire that we attract money.”
― Lebo Grand

“In the sensual world, we are not governed by the principle that says ‘time is money’. But we believe that time is feeling, and therefore it is through feeling and desire and alignment that we attract money.”
― Lebo Grand

“There is no wrong timing to do the right thing. Extremely simple logic yet so many people wait their entire lifetime to do what’s right.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“If you are not aware of the right time and right direction even the sunrise looks like sunset.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You want to become wise in one lesson:
First become a real human being.”
― Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

“Life has its seasons; and in each there are things that we are supposed to accomplish otherwise we throw ourselves out of synch and find that we live trying to catch yesterday's train.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Wisdom is the applied synthesis of knowledge + experience + timing. It is the application of your knowledge and experience in the most potent way possible and in the timeliest of manners.”
― Sebastien Richard, Lead Like a Superhero: What Pop Culture Icons Can Teach Us About Impactful Leadership

“I wish him luck fitting in my tight...schedule.”
― Aleksandra Ninković

“But you have to hit it just right. If you're too far out there, you're not going to find an audience. If you're lagging a little bit, then you're tired, dated, behind the curve. You have to be just a little ahead of the trend, so you can spot what's coming and shine just the right amount of light on it, at just the right time.”
― Steve Aoki, Blue: The Color of Noise

“The universe is wild.
Coincidence feels like magic more times than not.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“In English, plurality and timing matter. You cannot talk about an action, without also talking about when it happened, the past, present, or future, can define an entire experience. This is the hardest part. It is not enough to say that someone gives you something, the old woman tells me, you have to express when. Everything is rooted in time. Say give, say gives, say given, say gave. Give, gives, given, gave. I want to ask her why. Why is it so important in English and not in Chinese. What difference does the question of time make? The Chinese character for time, Shijian, is made with the charter of sun to represent the four seasons.”
― Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky

“Time is always right. If You're Happy.”
― Faisal Sarwar