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“Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.”

Dancing Dance Dancer Splits Timing Just Dance Robbery Short Dance Bank Robbery

Author:Twyla Tharp

“Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.”

Years Lasts Death Time Memories Seasons Eternity Following Stealing Cycles Anticipation Timing Timeliness

Book:Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering

Source: Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering

“The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.”

Want Time Literature Heaven Memories Future Seasons Cycles Anticipation Timing Timeliness

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend.”

Women Minutes Normal Asking Timing Schedules

Author:Casey Wilson

“Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.”

Way Trying Happens Moving Force Grows Doors Letting Go Things Happen Moving Forward Timing Impatient Make Things Happen

Author:Joel Osteen

“A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.”

“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.”

War Body Water Break Army Strikes Timing Prey Art Of War Momentum Toss Hawks Boulders

Book:Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules

Source: Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules

“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.”

Want Mind Stills Results Republican Election Immigration Timing Colleagues Immigration Reform Election Results

Author:Dick Durbin

“Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.”

Knows Two Teach Know How Golf Rhythm Two Things Timing Golf Course

Author:Bobby Jones

“In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it. I shall not attempt to explain how you achieve this happy timing.”

Needs Play Order Winning Stuff Achieve Golf Timing Golf Course Sloppy Playing Golf

Author:Bobby Jones

“Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.”

Time Memories Seasons Cycles Anticipation Timing Rare Things Timeliness

Book:The poetry of the Brownings: an anthology

Source: The poetry of the Brownings: an anthology

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

Time Faith Memories Moon Seasons Invisible Faithful Cycles Companion Anticipation Timing Elegant Daytime Timeliness

Book:Time and the Art of Living

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“It's not over until it's over.”

Time Memories Seasons Cycles Anticipation Timing Timeliness

Author:Yogi Berra

“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.”

People Believe Time Three Belief I Believe Interest Imagination Memories Half Months Exercise Six Garden Seasons Constant Strive Cycles Anticipation Timing Six Months Gardener Timeliness

Author:Alice Morse Earle

“For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.”

Men Life Ends Time Understanding Nature Memories Secret Existence Seeing Seasons Relation Infinite Cycles Infinity Anticipation Timing Incapable Nothingness Concealed Timeliness

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.”

Time Term Hours Memories Forever Seasons Mysterious Cycles Anticipation Timing Timeliness

Author:Gail Godwin

“At times I think and at times I am.”

Thinking Time Memories Seasons Cycles Anticipation Timing Timeliness

Author:Paul Valery

“The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.”

Years Ends Time Next Memories Work Seasons Plant Fruit Cycles Anticipation Timing Gardener Timeliness

Author:John Evelyn

“There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.”

Running Numbers Race Ritual Timing Marathon Athletics Inspirational Running Track And Field Lining Up

Author:Grete Waitz

“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.”

Inspiration Remember Spirit Simple Perfect Creation Type Harmony Aging Complexes Peaceful Timing Deadline Perfect Timing Peaceful Places

Book:Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.”

Lasts Time Memories Seasons Cycles Sarcastic Anticipation Timing Bad Day Timeliness

Book:Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait

Source: Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait

“The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.”

Want Life Giving Success Time Successful Ultimate What You Want Luxury Being Successful Timing Giving Yourself

Author:Leontyne Price

“No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.”

“The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.”

Inspirational Important Inspiration Decision Timing Decisions You Make

Author:John C. Maxwell

“My sense is that the most under-appreciated-and perhaps most under-researched-linkages between forests and food security are the roles that forest-based ecosystem services play in underpinning sustainable agricultural production. Forests regulate hydrological services including the quantity, quality, and timing of water available for irrigation. Forest-based bats and bees pollinate crops. Forests mitigate impacts of climate change and extreme weather events at the landscape scale.”

“I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I open my heart to God's timing. I release my deadlines, agendas, and stridency to the gentle yet often swift pacing of God. As I open my heart to God's unfoldings, my heart attains peace. As I relax into God's timing, my heart contains comfort. As I allow God to set the tone and schedule of my days, I find myself in the right time and place, open and available to God's opportunities.”

Source: Heart Steps

“Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.”

Love Persons Matter Dream Time Love Is Late Meetings Filmmaker Too Late Timing Right Person

Author:Wong Kar-wai

“I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.”

Trying Wells Wanted Jobs Force Waiting Leadership Football Needed Currents Outcomes Nfl Timing Preparing Inspiring Football

Book:Quiet Strength: A Memoir

Source: Quiet Strength: A Memoir

“I admit that I sometimes climbed on other fellows' backs. But I used to watch the flight of the ball perhaps more than the other fellow did. Perfect timing, a deep breath and a natural spring then helped me to get above them.”

Sometimes Used Sports Natural Perfect Watches Spring Balls Breaths Fellows Flight Timing Inspirational Sports Deep Breath Perfect Timing

Author:Roy Cazaly

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

Thinking Life Time Clock Timing

Author:Robert W. Service

“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.”

“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.”

Writing Looks Use Amount Conversation Pages Rhythm Loud Timing Syllables

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“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.”

Believe Humans Ends Individual I Believe Wish Decision Clear Method Medical Rational Timing Euthanasia Pain In Life

Author:A.C. Grayling

“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.”

Men Way Book Comedy Team Football Late Expected Tricks Soccer Analysis Too Late Timing Championship Greece Great Football Great Comedy

Author:Martin Samuel

“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.”

“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.”

Hard Action Practice Strength Movement Depends Splits Timing Effectiveness

Author:Bruce Lee

“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.”

Source: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

“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.”

Men Stills Body Beautiful Speed Rhythm All Time Boxing Pounds Rays Sugar Timing Reflexes Heavyweights

Author:Muhammad Ali

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

Timing Turnaround

Author:Paul Allaire

“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.”

Way Different Together Perfect Roles Millions Happened Phones Shooting Timing Auditions Addict Phone Calls Heroin Miami Glee Csi Perfect Timing Csi Miami

Author:Naya Rivera

“The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.”

Secret Comedy Riches Timing

Author:Russell Crowe

“But my longevity is due to my good timing.”

Dues Timing Longevity

Author:Tony Curtis

“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.”

“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.”

Feels Done Enough Term Comedy Teaching Generous Performers Timing Arena Priceless

Author:Khandi Alexander

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

Has Beens Movement Extraordinary Wave Timing

Author:Susan Sullivan

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

Deals Like You Cameras Comic Timing Haskell

Author:Colleen Haskell

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Knows Giving Talking Taste Concern Cooks Heat Chemistry Timing Frying Microwaves Frying Pans Timing Is Everything Tortillas

Author:Kevin Garnett

“A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.”

Genius Mark Timing

Book:Truisms and essays

Source: Truisms and essays

“What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I'm just noting the timing, here.”

Way Stupid Plant Oil Nuclear Timing Hateful Better Ways Drilling Rigs Blowing Up Nuclear Plants Oil Drilling

Author:Rush Limbaugh