Source: Prem Rawat's book, Hear Yourself: How to Find Peace in the Noisy World, published in 2021
As quoted in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007) edited by Ted Goodman, p. 175
Writing for the court, Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972).
Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils, chapter 4, p.90 (1913).
Quoted in "The Path to Gay Rights: How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion" by Jeremiah J. Garretson, chapter 9, pg 229.
“Milk was the right person in the right place at the right time, and he rose to the occasion.”
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/milk-2008 of Milk (24 November 2008)
Reviews, Four star reviews
Context: Sean Penn never tries to show Harvey Milk as a hero, and never needs to. He shows him as an ordinary man, kind, funny, flawed, shrewd, idealistic, yearning for a better world. He shows what such an ordinary man can achieve. Milk was the right person in the right place at the right time, and he rose to the occasion. So was Rosa Parks. Sometimes, at a precise moment in history, all it takes is for one person to stand up. Or sit down.
A Theory of Roughness (2004)
Context: There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time. For much of my life, however, there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone. So I spent much of my life as an outsider, moving from field to field, and back again, according to circumstances. Now that I near 80, write my memoirs, and look back, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years "ahead of my time.
“I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.”
Variant: I am in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing.
“Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 694.
