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“I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular spot in the brain.”

Thinking May My Own Brain Particular Spots Regions Timing Bias Pointing

Author:Gerald Fischbach

“It sometimes becomes difficult to tell when you're even creating a buzz. You know, everything in this game, it so relies on timing that that part is really important, and it's something that everyone tries to pay a lot of attention to.”

Knows Trying Important Sometimes Games Difficult Pay Attention Creating Rely Timing Buzz

Author:Joe Budden

“Basically [Louise] Brandeis was a Jeffersonian. And you say the timing is great, and it is in a lot of senses, except not for [Tomas] Jefferson, because this is a Hamiltonian moment, and he's the rock star of the minute with a great musical.”

Moments Stars Minutes Rocks Musical Senses Timing Rock Star Great Music Tomas Jefferson

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

“Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.”

Ifs Social Lines Talking Pieces Movement Timing Editing Documentaries Theatrical Social Movements Talking Heads

Author:Robert Greene

“You know, if you use instrument, why, you have to stay on perfect time - timing. And if you do a cappella - I'm so bad, just wonder, you know, maybe I'll sing one verse this way and one verse another. And if you're doing it a capella, you don't have to keep any time. You can just go out as far as you want to with it.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Use Perfect Wonder Instruments Timing Verses

Author:Ralph Stanley

“I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and pauses. That white space on the page is as important as the black. The bottom of the page is blackout. It's performance.”

Thinking Important Stories Black Space White Pages Beats Performances Bottom Timing Pauses Blackouts White Space

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“Patience is timing, just being humble and being the most quiet person in the room.”

Persons Rooms Quiet Humble Timing Just Being Be Humble Quiet Person

Author:Raheem Devaughn

“I think it's just growth, and development, timing. I've been fortunate to be around for a long time. Allowed me to get better as an actor. Allowed me to play better roles.”

Thinking Long Play Actors Growth Roles Development Long Time Fortunate Get Better Timing

Author:Morris Chestnut

“Everything kind of was leading towards that and I had so many specific ideas always about how exactly I wanted something to look. I would customize so many things in my wardrobe that were vintage or things that I was buying, and it just really all aligned and the timing was perfect.”

Looks Kind Ideas Wanted Perfect Buying Timing Wardrobe Vintage

Author:Rumi Neely

“There is no need for the Russian state to hold such large stakes and we do intend to put our plans into practice. It is not about whether we want it or not, it is about this being practical or not and the best timing. In general, it is practical from at least one point of view - from the point of view of structural changes in the economy.”

Want Needs States Views Practice Economy Plans Point Of View Practicals Stakes Timing

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.”

Return Average Dues Investors Timing Market Timing

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“You've got to look at the timing. But Mrs. Michelle Obama. Gwyneth Paltrow. Zendaya. Those are women who inspire other women's style for sure.”

Looks Style Inspire Timing Inspire Others

Author:Christian Siriano

“And even with traditional fashion models, where it's their job to be a certain size and a certain proportion, you have to make adjustments once you see your clothes on a real live person. Now imagine doing that with more sizes, more proportions. You really have to play with every piece. So timing is a big part of it. You have to make the time.”

Persons Real Play Bigs Jobs Certain Pieces Imagine Fashion Clothes Models Size Traditional Proportion Timing Adjustment Fashion Model

Author:Christian Siriano

“It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.”

Persons Hard Type Approach Ears Rhythm Comic Timing Transfers

Author:Marisa Tomei

“A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.”

Bigs Jobs Remember Timing

Author:Edward Boyden

“I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.”

Ifs Knows Littles Jobs Bits Know How Pieces Fronts Little Bit Notes Eight Stuck Supposed To Be Timing Chords Violin Thirteen

Author:Petra Haden

“Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.”

Thinking Enough Universal Timing

Author:Norman Lear

“Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.”

Should Form Wonderful Fine Genius Skills Jokes Grateful Timing Be Grateful

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The question of Israeli apartheid was anathema a decade ago. Now it's even talked about by top Israeli officials, who say - they differ on the timing: We say it's already there; they say that if we don't do something different, we're going to face apartheid.”

Ifs Different Faces Decades Officials Timing Israeli Apartheid Anathema

Author:Phyllis Bennis

“That's the storyboard that we have in the beginning [of Valerian]. It's an easy shot. It's just a spaceship coming in. That's the first layout. On the first layout, we see the timing of the shot and the speed. It starts to get some shadows, and we see that everything is moving in the back.”

Firsts Moving Easy Shots Shadow Speed Timing Spaceships Moving In Layout

Author:Luc Besson

“Timing is everything, as you know.”

Knows Timing Timing Is Everything

Author:Brent Spiner

“Comic timing is something you are either born with or do not have.”

Born Comic Timing

Author:Deepika Padukone

“I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.”

Opportunity Theater Come Up Timing

Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“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.”

Perfect Happened Fronts Office Timing Teammate Not Perfect I'm Not Perfect Knicks Bad Timing Front Office

Author:Derrick Rose

“I think when it comes to Anderson Silva, it comes down to his speed, his distance and his timing are impeccable. They are second to none and that's what makes him dangerous.”

Thinking Dangerous Distance Speed Timing Impeccable Anderson Silva

Author:Shawn Tompkins

“As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.”

Children Important Mother Actors Chance Timing Small Child

Author:Nicole Kidman

“I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.”

“Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.”

Decision Dignity Size Timing

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“I used my Karate footwork to control the distance, and I use is as a penetration drill that I do, this is my speciality, the way I penetrate on people, the explosiveness and the timing. It all started with Kyokoshin and Sports Karate.”

People Way Use Used Sports Distance Timing Penetrate Karate Drills Penetration Footwork

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.”

Firsts Comedy Lessons Jokes Timing Constructs Unbelievable

Author:Rob Lowe

“[Maggie Smith] brings new meaning to the phrase "doesn't suffer fools." She has just the most amazing, dry timing of anyone ever, I think. I think everyone's always known about it, but with her resurgence on Downton Abbey, a whole new generation has been introduced to it, which is just great.”

Thinking Has Beens Whole Suffering Known Generations Fool Phrases Dry Timing New Generation Most Amazing Maggie Abbey Resurgence

Author:Rob Lowe

“Sometimes it wasn't even when we were knocking on doors, it would be, the phone would ring and somebody would say, "God told me to do this," and it would be exactly the perfect timing to help us with the next step of the filmmaking.”

Sometimes Helping Would Be Next Perfect Steps Doors Phones Rings Filmmaking Timing Knocking Next Steps Perfect Timing Knocking On Doors

Author:Stephen Kendrick

“Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.”

Source: Whistler

“I don't have anything against audiobooks. I actually did a couple of them - but not many. I just never got into it, timing-wise. I don't listen to them, if that's any indication of my feelings about them. I'd rather read.”

Ifs Feelings Wise Couple Timing Indication

Author:John Larroquette

“Gil Clancy told me to move around for six or seven rounds, but when you're a puncher and you catch someone, you got after them. And in that fight [with George Foreman in 1999] my timing was off and I got caught.”

Moving Fighting Six Seven Rounds Caught Timing

Author:Gerry Cooney

“I haven't invented anything earth-shattering. If I could be said to have one noteworthy ability compared with the average person, it's that I have a keen interest in reading the direction and timing of paradigm shifts.”

Ifs Persons Said Earth Reading Interest Ability Havens Average If I Could Timing Paradigm Average Person Shattering Paradigm Shift

Author:Masayoshi Son

“Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations to be correctly sequenced.”

Doe Problem Action Sensations Timing Motor

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“I just don't think [Payne] was the right time to do it, maybe. It was timing, not so much that it was executed wrong.”

Thinking Timing Right Time

Author:Julie Benz

“We got the first WikiLeaks publication of documents hacked and stolen by Russian government sources from the DNC, from the Democratic Party, and they started publishing those stolen documents from the DNC right before the Democrats started their convention.Good political timing if you`re trying to help [Donald] Trump and hurt the Democrats.”

“October 7th [2016], indeed, WikiLeaks released its whole new dump. A whole new bunch of e-mails and documents, this time from [Hillary] Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, e-mails that U.S. intelligence say were hacked by Russia. Apparently, again, they were waiting for the best possible timing on the release.”

Whole Waiting Clinton Campaigns Russia Bunch Release Chiefs Mail Timing Documents October Dump Wikileaks Hacked

Author:Rachel Maddow

“I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.”

Thinking Littles Would Be Musical Rhythm Worried Timing Familiarity

Author:Sandra Bullock

“Let's finish with Guccifer. My communication with him is now entirely public. It is benign.Secondarily, the timing of my communication is after, not before, I write a story for Breitbart regarding the hacking. And I never defend him from not being a Russian agent in that piece.”

Writing Stories Pieces Communication Agents Timing Hacking Benign

Author:Roger Stone

“I have had no contacts or collusions with the Russians. And my exchange with Guccifer 2, based on the content and the timing, most certainly does not constitute collusion.”

Doe Contact Timing Collusion

Author:Roger Stone

“My prototypical quarterback is a competitive guy that's a winner, somebody that has great athletic instincts, somebody who is very accurate throwing the football, a quick-minded guy who can think fast on his feet and can make decisions quickly, someone who has leadership ability, an understanding of timing and can make really good decisions.”

Thinking Guy Understanding Ability Decision Feet Football Instinct Winner Throwing Accurate Timing Athletic Quarterback Good Decision Great Athletic

Author:Jim Harbaugh

“I think the country needs a good laugh. There are so many things dividing us right now, in the real world, that the timing is right for escapist entertainment that makes you feel better about your own family. If this family can survive, than everyone has got a chance.”

Thinking World Real Country Chance Laughing Real World Timing Feel Better Good Laugh

Author:Will Packer

“Mo Willems was so helpful. I had met him a number of times, and I knew from his books how funny he was, of course, but it was really neat to be able to have his feedback. He's so great with comic timing. Working with him was like taking a master class in comic timing, because he could pinpoint right away if a section wasn't working. I remember him saying once, "No, you need a beat between this page and this page," and it was like, oh yeah, of course. I hadn't seen it, but being so good at what he does, Mo noticed it right away.”

Book Remember Comic Helpful Timing Feedback Neat

Author:Laurie Keller

“Animation is about timing; movement or lack of movement, often in time with music. These are the tools which make it's visual gags work, or not. Again, comics don't have those tools, so you have to find some sort of parallel to create something that suggests a close approximation of the source material, but without the ability to truly replicate it.”

Ability Timing Animation

Author:John Rozum

“We are individuals. There's free will. There's timing. We can make the same things in totally different ways.”

Different Individual Free Will Timing

Author:Nicole Richie

“You just have to be persistent. I think that's one of the biggest things about the model industry and this career is being persistent and believing in yourself and also being ready when the timing is right. So much of it is about timing and luck, so to be ready when you get the opportunity.”

Thinking Believe Opportunity Luck Believe In Yourself Timing Persistent

Author:Tricia Helfer

“I'm used to spending a lot of time with my team. They're not only collaborators, they're also friends. It's the biggest part of your life that you share with these people. But sometimes being on the top of this pyramid, you need to be a little bit tough. This job is becoming very tough for every company because of timing. You don't have the time to finish the collection before you have to think about the next one. But I am never loud. I don't like to scream. So we are all working hard, and sometimes you need to reassure them.”

People Thinking Sometimes Team Share Tough Scream Timing

Author:Frida Giannini

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