Enid Bagnold Quotes

In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.

... the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place.

There is not only a right thing to do. There is a right time to do it.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

So much in life came down to timing.

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.

If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

Everything has a place and time.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity.

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

My ability matches the national moment.

Becoming an actress was just about being in the right place at the right time.

Sometimes it's about finding the right situation at the right time in this league.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

Know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.