Best 59 quotes in «deadline quotes» category

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line.

Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

God knows what it's like to be a human. When I talk to him about deadlines or long lines or tough times, he understands. He's been there. He's been here.

Goals are just dreams with deadlines.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out.

I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines.

If I'm right in the middle of a deadline, I'm up really early.

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.

I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?

I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

I spent the year behind on deadlines and everything else. It's only now in December that I feel even slightly caught up. 2016 has to be better.

Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.

I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive when there's less panic.

Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.

My work is just a hobby. No, I wouldn't want to do it professionally. It's too hard. Deadlines are no fun. But I can sit and tweak all night and not worry about time.

The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.

To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

We remind ourselves that it's a hobby [The Esemblist]; nobody is setting these deadlines for us, except us.

With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.

Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

A deadline is, simply put, optimism in its most kick-ass form. It's a potent force that, when wielded with respect, will level any obstacle in its path. This is especially true when it comes to creative pursuits.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

Editors keep pushing deadline strain while people sleep on benches and subway grates; a welter weight boxer dances on the platform at 125th Street station, commuters look unfazed...

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

Being proud of my work and wanting to nurture this relationship, I never failed in my commitments to her. In general, I make a point of meeting all my deadlines. But, I distinctly remember one time that I couldn’t deliver the job in time…

I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear may be mild — timidity is the word I've used here. If, however, one is working under deadline — a school paper, a newspaper article, the SAT writing sample — that fear may be intense.

If you want to double your productively, shorten the timeline to by 50%.

Respect your deadline like it’s a field marshal.

I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.