Best 59 quotes in «deadline quotes» category

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.

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

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

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your 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 have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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