Deadline Quotes

For the truth there is no deadline.

Deadlines and things make you creative.

If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever.

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

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.

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

The Republicans are calling the Democrats' plan to have a deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq an 'admission of failure', as opposed to the Republican plan which is 'failure without admission'.

You've got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death.

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate.

For truth there is no deadline.

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

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

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

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

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

Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work.

The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.

Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.

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

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

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

On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

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

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.

Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

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.

I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.

Anybody who writes knows the horrible, wonderful, beautiful foulness that comes every week. A lot of moaning, screaming agony - "Oh my god, the deadline's coming."

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.

Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline.

I only feel the pressure when we are coming up against a deadline and it's like, actually no we really have to nail this in a week!

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.

I'm a big believer that dreams don't have deadlines!

I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.

Goals are just dreams with deadlines.

When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.

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

Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

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