Bad Timing Quotes

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

  Tony Corinda

  Magic, Sticks, Timing

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• No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.

  Paul Auster

  Dark, Thinking, Missing

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.187, Penguin

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• All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

  Joshua Ferris

  Heart, Poor Decisions, Broken

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• Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

  Scott Adams

  Song, Hip Hop, Age

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

  John Frusciante

  Needs, Lasts, Timing

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• I put that on myself with not telling the Knicks. It was just bad timing but I'm not perfect, far from it. The front office and my teammates, they knew where I was coming from when I told them what happened.

  Derrick Rose

  Perfect, Office, Teammate

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• I'm happy to say that I have not been fired off a film. The score is usually the last thing to be done. So a lot lands on the scores shoulders. A lot of problems that seem to have nothing to do with the music gets blamed on the music , because it's relatively cheap to change, where as a reshoot etc is not. Music is often expected to help or fix bad cuts, bad acting, bad filming, bad timing, you name it.

  Trevor Rabin

  Cutting, Land, Names

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• Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick (flu) before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn't quite myself.

  Ernie Els

  Couple, Golf, Games

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• So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.

  Gwen Cooper

  Cute, Sweet, Strong

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• I try to wait until things set up just right before I take a trade. Then, when I'm ready to take the trade, I slowly count to ten before I pick up the phone. It's better to have the wrong idea and good timing than the right idea and bad timing.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Ideas, Phones, Waiting

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• Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

  Debbie Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Moving, Years, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.48, Beacon Press

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