Timing Quotes - page 3

Well I couldn't agree with you more, so the timing and the sense of urgency. That's why with everything within us we need to start literally banging garbage lids together, to create enough noise so that our neighbors and our co-workers realize where the time clock is at this point, because the second hand is literally banging up against 11:59 on the clock on freedom when it comes to health care. (Michele Bachmann)
But my longevity is due to my good timing. View quote
Tony Curtis
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. View quote
Marvin Bower
The timing and conditions are ripe for the two sides to set up representative offices (ARATS in Taiwan and SEF in Mainland China). There are no political implications to the plan and the functions of the offices will be basically neutral. View quote
Ma Ying-jeou
The spirit of the smacking parry is not parrying, or smacking strongly, but smacking the enemy's long sword in accordance with his attacking cut, primarily intent on quickly cutting him. If you understand the timing of smacking, however hard your long swords clash together, your swordpoint will not be knocked back even a little. You must research sufficiently to realise this. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
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. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
You win in battles with the timing in the Void born of the timing of cunning by knowing the enemies' timing, and this using a timing which the enemy does not expect. All the five books are chiefly concerned with timing. You must train sufficiently to appreciate all this. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
In battles, when the armies are in confrontation, attack the enemy's strong points and, when you see that they are beaten back, quickly separate and attack yet another strong point on the periphery of his force. The spirit of this is like a winding mountain path. This is an important fighting method for one man against many. Strike down the enemies in one quarter, or drive them back, then grasp the timing and attack further strong points to right and left, as if on a winding mountain path, weighing up the enemies' disposition. When you know the enemies' level, attack strongly with no trace of retreating spirit. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
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)
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this--or more accurately, because of this--his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz--at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form. View quote
Ornette Coleman
I like those lefties, but when you're hitting, all pitchers look alike. I don't care too much who's throwing or what he throws. When my timing is off, I have trouble; when it ain't, I don't. View quote
Hank Aaron
It's always about timing. If it's too soon, no one understands. If it's too late, everyone's forgotten. View quote
Anna Wintour
You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia. View quote
Cassandra Clare
All we can do is live every single day and do our best to be present with the ones that we love and with everybody that we come in contact with ... The timing of everything seems too divine sometimes to ignore. View quote
Alicia Witt
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized. View quote
Barbara Kruger
A loud booming noise interrupted us, and we saw a flash of light off to my right. People near the other garages screamed. "There, you see?" asked Abe, quite pleased with himself. "A new gate. Perfect timing. View quote
Richelle Mead
No generation can choose the age or circumstance in which it is born, but through leadership it can choose to make the age in which it is born an age of enlightenment, an age of jobs, and peace, and justice. Only leadership -- that intangible combination of gifts, the discipline, information, circumstance, courage, timing, will and divine inspiration -- can lead us out of the crisis in which we find ourselves. Leadership can mitigate the misery of our nation. Leadership can part the waters and lead our nation in the direction of the Promised Land. Leadership can lift the boats stuck at the bottom. View quote
Jesse Jackson
Time to be moving; moves to be timing. View quote
Michael Moorcock
His use of rhythm, his timing, his footwork. Ray Robinson was the greatest combination of speed and power that ever came together in one fighter. (Sugar Ray Robinson)
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. View quote
George McGovern
We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right. View quote
Nikki Sixx
When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing. View quote
Sun Tzu
Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing. View quote
Scott Adams