Inspirational quotes from unexpected sources #6

This is a bit more of a "scene" from an old TV show called Emergency!  Emergency was sort of a docu-drama chronicling the implementation of the pParamedic program in Los Angeles California.  In this scene John Gage(Randy Mantooth) is talking to Roy DeSoto(Kevin Tighe) about signing up for the Paramedic training class.  Although the class is being offered, paramedics are not authorized to do the job

"Paramedic Roy DeSoto: This application isn't signed.
Paramedic John Gage: I wanted to talk to you first.
Paramedic Roy DeSoto: Sure. What do you want to know?
Paramedic John Gage: You went through that first class of special medical training, right?
Paramedic Roy DeSoto: Right.
Paramedic John Gage: If you rolled on a rescue call now. Today. Could you use that training to treat a victim on the scene?
Paramedic Roy DeSoto: No.
Paramedic John Gage: Then why should I, or anybody else, spend twelve weeks, or twelve minutes, learning to do what we can't do?
Paramedic Roy DeSoto: Because you said *today*. There's a bill before the state legislature right now, Assembly Bill PM 11307, that will permit qualified fire department personnel to administer medical assistance in the field.
Paramedic John Gage: *If* it's passed.
Paramedic Roy DeSoto: You've asked a few questions before you came in here, didn't you?
Paramedic John Gage: I want to find out if it's a job, or just a title.
Paramedic Roy DeSoto: It's a job all right. It's going to be the most important advance in emergency medicine in the last fifty years.
Paramedic John Gage: Going to be. Well, maybe you'd better just hang-on to that application until it is.
Paramedic Roy DeSoto: That'll be too late. We're already late. Gage, there are over six-and-a-half million people in Los Angeles County right now and not nearly enough doctors to handle them even under normal conditions. When you get into an emergency situations: freeway accidents, drownings, heart attacks and a thousand others, people are dying at the scene! People who could stay alive if there was somebody at the spot who knew what to do!
Paramedic John Gage: But they won't let you fuction.
Paramedic Roy DeSoto: They will. They'll have to. Look, if that bill passes in the Legislature today, do you know how many people we have ready for the job?
[Gage shakes his head no]
Paramedic Roy DeSoto: Just me, and five other guys who took the training course. Six men for six-and-a-half million people. No, we can't wait for the go ahead and then train our people. If there's once chance in a million that bill will be passed, we have to be ready.
Paramedic John Gage: Use your pen?
[Gage signs the application] "

There's a very good point about timing here.  Timing can be the most important part of any business venture.  Think about it, it's like surfing.  You can't catch a wave by being behind it paddling to catch up, you have to be in front of it and then ride it.