Best 59 quotes in «deadline quotes» category

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

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

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

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

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.

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

Goals are just dreams with deadlines.

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

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.

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

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

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 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 don't need time, I need a deadline.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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%.

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