Best 59 quotes in «deadline quotes» category

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...

It was just a lie that seemed real. It was a promise that was never meant to be true. The forever that had a deadline. It felt like falling in love, but it was falling in a heartbreak café!

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%.

New orders: Make sure everybody who doesn't want to live here is aboard in five minutes. We are leaving. -Captain Kevyn Andreyasn

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

Squandering time is a luxury of profligate youth, when the years are to us as dollars are to billionaires. Doing the same thing in middle age just makes you nervous, not with vague puritan guilt but the more urgent worry that you're running out of time, a deadline you can feel in your cells.

Respect your deadline like it’s a field marshal.

What we did and who we were are just dregs compared to who we are now and how we act when the sword is coming down.

Wanneer u beschikt over een beperkt budget of u hebt een deadline die angstig snel nadert, concentreer u dan op de belangrijkste richtlijnen.

As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring.

Why can't we get the energy, which we get just before a deadline, a few days in advance?

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

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

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.

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

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

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

Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

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

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

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

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.

Goals are just dreams with deadlines.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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