critical timing Quotes

One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.

This is not the time for critical experiments which would have a highly destructive effect on morale.

Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.

Timing is everything, as you know.

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

I'll hit them when it matters.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.

Advice when most needed is least heeded

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.

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

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

It is natural for men, who wish to hasten the adoption of a measure to tell us now is the crisis—now is the crucial moment which must be seized, or all will be lost.

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

Everybody just uses the one-move rule without realising when it is too late to actually move and cross over and when it is actually being dangerous.

Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical.

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.