Timing Quotes - Page 10

• Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

  Robert W. Service

  Life, Time, Thinking

  "It Is Later Than You Think" l. 56 (1921)

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• The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language.

  Leon Uris

  Prayer, Men, Discipline

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• In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in a word. When I write, I read everything out loud to get the right rhythm.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Use, Pages

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Jul 06, 2010

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• I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.

  A.C. Grayling

  Believe, Decision, Wish

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• The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

  Robert Grudin

  Faith, Time, Memories

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When life tends to get too complex, too fast, too cluttered, too deadline oriented, or too type A for you, stop and remember your own spirit. You're headed for inspiration, a simple, peaceful place where you're in harmony with the perfect timing of all creation.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspiration, Simple, Perfect

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Memories, Anticipation

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1947). “The poetry of the Brownings: an anthology”

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• Our timing is right... The election results are still fresh in the minds of my Republican colleagues and they don't want to go through this again.

  Dick Durbin

  Mind, Immigration, Election Results

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• Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Time, Memories, Believe

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

  Susan Sullivan

  Movement, Wave, Extraordinary

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

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• I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

  Khandi Alexander

  Teaching, Arena, Done

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• With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness of landscape, and the soul-wound wrought by casual defacement. Abbate has a superb capacity for distillation and a mastery of poetic line, and her diction is remarkably flexible, accommodating both the demotic and the lyrical. Her poems are as consistent in quality as they are varied in pacing, surface, and tone. A fine first book.

  Linda Gregerson

  Book, Soul, Quality

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• That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Men, Boxing

  "Sugar Ray Robinson tribute part 2", www.youtube.com. July 26, 2006.

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

  Colleen Haskell

  Cameras, Like You, Comic

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• We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.

  Cynthia Moss

  Sound, Bats, Encounters

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• Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.

  Bruce Lee

  Strength, Practice, Effectiveness

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• I appeared with many leading men. But working with Cary Grant was different from working with other actors. He was much more fun! I think we were a successful team because we enjoyed working together tremendously, and that pleasure must have shown through onto the screen. I will always remember two compliments he made me. He said I had perfect timing in comedy and that I was the sweetest smelling actress he ever worked with.

  Irene Dunne

  Fun, Team, Successful

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

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• A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

  Jenny Holzer

  Genius, Mark

  Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Timing is everything. Chemistry is something that you don't just throw in the frying pan and mix it up with another something, then throw it on top of something, then fry it up and put it in a tortilla and put in a microwave, heat it up and give it to you and expect it to taste good. You know? For those of you who can cook, y'all know what I'm talking about. If y'all can't cook, this doesn't concern you.

  Kevin Garnett

  Talking, Giving, Frying Pans

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• The day that I got the phone call to tell me that I booked ‘Glee’ I was shooting ‘CSI Miami.’ I was playing this heroin addict…I’d been on a million auditions where I sang and looked exactly the same way and didn’t do anything different. And so for this to be the one that popped it was just like what happened? It was the perfect timing and the perfect role for me. It was like everything came together.

  Naya Rivera

  Csi, Phones, Perfect

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• But my longevity is due to my good timing.

  Tony Curtis

  Longevity, Dues

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• Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the return of the declination to its original value is slightly ahead of the period of the centre. Hence it necessarily follows that the equinoxes and solstices seem to anticipate their timing, not because the sphere of the fixed stars moves to the east, but rather the equatorial circle moves to the west, being at an angle to the plane of the ecliptic in proportion to the declination of the axis of the terrestrial globe.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Stars, Moving, Mean

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1976). “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”, David & Charles Publishers

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• The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have directly stressed that state interventions create corporatist forms... the formation, let alone the political capabilities, of such purely socioeconomic phenomena as interest groups and classes depends in significant measure on the structures and activities of the very states the social actors, in turn, seek to influence.

  Theda Skocpol

  Philosophy, Class, Political

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• We knew we'd be together, we didn't know when,
  But long distance love, never thought it would end.
  The feelings never changed until the call came...
  You were engaged, I was in pain.
  It was such a shame: the timing, it just wasn't right.
  So I say, 'Good luck,' and then I say, 'Good night.'

  MURS

  Good Night, Pain, Distance

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