#timed

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fortunate #fortune #improving-chances #lottery #luck

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#dumb #genius #hero #seldom #speaks

One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#big #does #i #learned #multimedia

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#destroy #enables #falcon #like #quality

If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#almost #because #body #clock #eight

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#commanding #expression #most #silence #well-timed

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#break #conglomerate #diversity #doing #field

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#hath #more #silence #speech #than

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#black family #chronological #community #entrance #exit

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#beg #blasphemy #charity #christmas #christmas eve