emotional timing Quotes

This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.

We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter.

Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good. You want to do it when he's down.

It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.

Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.

There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different emotional frame of mind and we would willingly fall into their arms; gladly take up their challenge or invitation. But as it is, we encounter them when we are discontent or content and they are not. Whatever they are, we are not and vice versa. Two trains going in different directions that pass for a few powerful moments at full speed, blasting noise and wind but then they are gone. Whatever serious chemistry might have been possible if, isn’t.

I am not afraid of slowing down moments - if you have the right emotion in the right place at the right time, you can have any length of film you want.

On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.

A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.