If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob HopeRead
Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The right timing is crucial for both living well and delivering humor effectively.
This quote by Bob Hope emphasizes the importance of timing in all aspects of life, particularly in comedy, where delivering a joke at the perfect moment can make all the difference in its reception. It suggests that recognizing when to act or speak is vital for success and fulfillment, highlighting that life, much like comedy, requires an understanding of the right moments to seize opportunities.
Themes
TimingLifeComedyOpportunitySuccess
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about seizing opportunities.
More from Bob Hope
All quotes βThe best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
Bob HopeRead
Eisenhower admitted that the budget can't be balanced and McCarthy said the communists are taking over. You don't know what to worry about these days - whether the country will be overthrown or overdrawn.
Bob HopeRead
I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
Bob HopeRead
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob HopeRead
Golf is a funny game. It's done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I'm the healthiest idiot in the world.
Bob HopeRead
Similar quotes
Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.
Michael JordanRead
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
W. Somerset MaughamRead
In her opinion, the parrots were annoying arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that won't make it love you. You could feed it, care for it and exclaim over its loveliness, but there was nothing to guarantee that it would stay home with you. There had to be a lesson in there somewhere.
Armistead MaupinRead
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
Anna QuindlenRead
Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.
J. K. RowlingRead
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.
Roger AngellRead