My timing and pressure is the definition of MMA.
My mum has had heart-attacks, a stroke, and it all coincided with me being called up for Scotland so the timing was not good. Thankfully, she is a great woman.
Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.
You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.
I haven’t just got a fight IQ – and I’m clever. I’ve got that power. I’ve got that movement. I’ve got that timing.
Showing fear is like having comedic timing because I think actors have a tendency to go way over the top with it, and that sort of loses steam for what’s going on. The audience sees right through that and laughs at you, so it is something that I’m aware of.
Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing.
Let’s not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It’s timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.
Back in the old-school days when I learned back in the ’60s, the psychology of our business back in those days was totally different than the psychology of the young kids today. They’re rushed. They don’t have their timing down. Us old-school guys, we’d go 30 minutes, 45 minutes, an hour.
It’s funny, because not everyone can make the NBA, but timing and being in the right situation is something that can make or break someone or a team.
When you’re running a route, timing is everything. You have an internal clock – a timer that goes off in your mind that tells you that you need to be ready for the ball – and you have to get to your spot on time.
When you label someone ‘up and coming’ or ‘the new breakout,’ there’s this kind of expectation. And I think, like I said before, it’s very hard to live up to that expectation when you really don’t have that much power as an actor – in terms of your career path and the timing.
Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It’s about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that’s how I tap into it.
I put myself in a position where I made wrestling an option for me. I don’t have to wrestle. I don’t have to take another shot for the rest of my life if I don’t want to. I have good enough hands, good enough boxing, good enough timing to strike with anybody in our division.
I still have work to do on my timing and I won’t play a game unless I’m 100 per cent.
Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.
It’s important not only to have the right timing of when the hardware is going to be released but also when we are going to be able to introduce quality software.
If you’re entering into fashion in an original way, you have to know your craft, and you have to know your history. You have to be obsessively dedicated. You have to be relentless about making it happen. It doesn’t take a bank. It takes passion, love, timing, and luck.
Our bodies and our minds have their own timing that pay little attention to our cerebral desires. We can’t force or expect things to change as fast as we want, but when we put our efforts in the direction of our intention and drop everything else like snow falling, things unfold with ease.
Music deals with time and timing. It’s so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it’s critical, so critical. And if it’s not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word’s setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word’s full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.
We can only stop Cristiano Ronaldo as a team. In front of goal, he’s like a machine. You can’t shut him out completely; he always gets his chances in a game because of the lines he runs and his excellent timing.
The average investor’s return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
I love gritty dramas, ‘Queen Sugar,’ ‘True Detective’ – stuff like that, but I also love quippy comedies – those multi-cam comedies with incredibly talented and funny casts with perfect comedic timing.
Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.
I think a lot of people try to time the market when it comes to buying or selling a property or investing in real estate, but the real secret to real estate is not timing the market, but time in the market.
Your timing has to be very accurate. I’ve done a lot of wire work before. I can see that experience makes a big difference.
Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.
The weird thing is, if I’d made ‘The Incredibles,’ shot-for-shot – exactly the same script, same timing, same shots – in live action, it would be perceived very differently, and somehow more adult than me doing it in animation. I find that fascinating and frustrating.
‘Resident Evil: Damnation’ was physically mo-capped and recorded with the mo-cap actors first, so there wasn’t a whole lot of flexibility with timing, so it was more stringent. We had to go in individually.
You never know when the timing is going to hit in a such a way that you’re going to make a difference.
After we’d filmed one series of ‘Kiss Me Kate,’ everyone was saying: ‘The guy’s got great comic timing,’ – that was the first I’d heard of it. I’m not a comedian, I don’t want to depend on a singular box of tricks. I like story and characters, to take on world views that are not my own.
You have to be an athlete. A sense of timing is vital. So is dedication. Being a stuntman calls for qualities usually associated with being a dancer.
It’s so unfair that Barack Obama, this cool, charming guy, also has good comedic timing.
I believe I’m better than everybody when it comes to footwork, timing, reflexes, defense, you name it.
I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack’s timing, but I don’t think you can teach timing. It’s something you hear in your head.
My approach to parenting is that everything is open – everything. I’m not very good at covert, or subtle, and I’ve had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
For every athlete, Olympics is the target, but mine is a little different. I am focusing on improving my timing; that’s what I think about.
I expected women to get mad at me because I was knocking pregnancy any way shape or form even though I wasn’t against the act, just the timing. And also they said, ‘Well he’s mad because Becky Lynch is pregnant.’ No I’m not mad, once again, I’m astonished! At the timing!
When you’re a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it’s all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.
If your timing is not correct then comedy will become tragedy.
Instead of traveling on a weekend, begin your trip on a Tuesday or Wednesday, which are often the cheapest days to fly. Being flexible with timing can help with savings.
Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.
I watched Pablo Zabaleta countless times on YouTube and clips, because I think his timing of runs into the box is fantastic.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can’t learn on a set, because it’s all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again… You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.
Los Angeles traffic is just the worst thing in the world. It throws off timing so much. However, it’s always warm and sunny. New Jersey has absolutely terrible weather, but the environment is really homey and chill.
While I do not believe Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon, the timing of the pardon was premature and may have cost Ford the margin of victory in the 1976 election.
You know, sometimes, when they say you’re ahead of your time, it’s just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
There’s no such thing as anybody who can’t be beat; everybody can be beat. It’s a question of how hard you’re willing to work. It’s a question of the environment, the surroundings. Frankly, there’s a lot of issues with timing.
It’s good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can’t be personalized.
I love to watch Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai.’ The comic timing of the actors is amazing. It makes me laugh endlessly sitting on my sofa.
Every time I throw, I hate to miss. It’s like those timing games in the arcades. I win every single time. Guys watch me and they pay me to keep playing.
