Optimal Timing Quotes

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.

One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career.

The best time to go to Disney World, if you want to avoid huge crowds, is 1962.

There comes a time where delay, to get a slightly better decision, is worse than action to get a pretty good decision.

Timing is everything in life and in golf.

I don't want to play forever. I want to give everything I can now and then walk away knowing I gave everything. The example I think of is Barry Sanders. He was such a great player, and he left when he was still on top. I want that to be me.

I think that timing is everything. At first, it was too soon. And then, the time was right, but I was busy with other things, and the cast was busy with other things. By the time we sat down to work on the movie, enough time had passed that suddenly a different story emerged.

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.

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

The value of actions lies in their timing.

Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

I didn't start boxing until I was 18 but I believe that is a big advantage now. If you start too young, it's easy to become distracted.

Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.

I firmly believe that knowing too much too soon can color your performance in a not good way. I just don't want to know until I need to know.

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

You want to finish something when it's good. You don't want to be the last one at the party!

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

You don't wanna peak too early in training camp, but you don't wanna be out of shape or not to the point where you're able to peak. It's a science to be able to find the happy medium where your body and mind are at their best.

Morning is the best time to see movies.

Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note.

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.