Right Moment Quotes - Page 3

• Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  World, Moments, Cigarette

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• He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.

  Haruki Murakami

  Goodbye, Judging, Trying

  "Hunting Knife" by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2003.

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• The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Mistake, Thinking

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.197, Tuttle Publishing

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• One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

  Hart Crane

  Inspirational, Writing, Men

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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• The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

  Francois Rabelais

  Hair, Moments, Missed You

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• I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Irony, Moments, Wrong Things

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• The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Letting Go, Failure, Waiting

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

  Horace

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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• The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military genius is by the fact that, during the war, he will mock the rules of warfare and will employ creative improvisation instead of tested methods and he will do so at the right moment.

  Stefan Zweig

  Military, War, Creativity

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• I write some crappy songs. ... but every once in a while I get just the right words put together for the right moment, and it feels like magic. There is no explaining the magic. It floats in and then just like that, it floats out. There's no amount of money that will buy magic. I've watched myself try to coax it, but it is only when I relax and totally allow magic to envelop me that it has ever been kind.

  Bonnie Baker

  Song, Writing, Magic

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• There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.

  Isaac Babel

  Heart, Iron, Crafts

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• Every team is beatable, you never know. The right moment, the right time, every team is beatable.

  Tom Coughlin

  Motivational, Football, Team

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• It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Teacher

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.26, Om Books International

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• The richer you are, the more worries you have - problems of security, future. Whatsoever you have, you have to hold it. You have to hold it against others because they are constantly watching for a right opportunity to take it back. Whatsoever you hold, you hold out of violence. And of course, if you have been violent then others can be violent to you. They are just waiting for the right moment. The richer you get, the more worries, more problems, more fears you have. Who bothers, if one is happy?

  Rajneesh

  Opportunity, Worry, Waiting

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• I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.

  Nick Cave

  Comedy, Moments, Reaching

  "Outback outlaws". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2006.

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• Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the right moment that a buyer needs it.

  David Meerman Scott

  Marketing, Needs, Way

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• Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in the fire and it hurt,"), which is probably the earliest kind we learn. Then there's the logically convincing, which we probably come to first through maths, in the context of Pythagoras's theorem or something similar, and which, if we first encounter it at exactly the right moment, bursts on our minds like sunrise with the whole universe playing a great chord of C Major.

  Philip Pullman

  Hurt, Math, Science

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• You're walking by the tomb of Battiades,
  Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy
  Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

  Callimachus

  Laughter, Writing, Wine

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• People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.

  Andre Kertesz

  Mean, People, Movement

  André Kertész, J. Paul Getty Museum (1994). “André Kertész: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.44, Getty Publications

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• Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.

  Gillian Flynn

  Pain, Men, Thinking

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone’s always too busy. They’re too talented, their schedules are too full. They’re too interested in themselves to think about what’s fair.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Patience, Eye

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• There is always a right moment to stop something.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Entrepreneur

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• Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.

  Aryn Kyle

  Character, Important, World

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• It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of one's friends; but it is doubly hard for an aviator to stay on the ground waiting for just the right moment to go into the air.

  Glenn Curtiss

  Air, Waiting, Desire

  Glenn H. Curtiss (1912). “The Curtiss Aviation Book”

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• All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.55

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