Top 241 Deadline Quotes & Sayings

A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.

A goal is simply a dream with a deadline.

The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline. If it's two days, sometimes there are things I see that don't work as well. If I have two weeks, the scripts get kind of flabby and lack the adrenaline that a sense of deadline fills you with.

The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to deadline because ... 'we've got to go. It's spring break, we're going to be late for spring break, and we've got to go, so we've got to finish this up before we go.'

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

So on the Tuesday night deadline, while Abu Qatada was appealing to European Court judges, the Home Secretary, who thought the deadline was Monday night, was partying with "X Factor" judges. When the Home Secretary is accused of not knowing what day of the week it is, confusion and chaos have turned into farce.

Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline.

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

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

Either I need an assignment with a strict deadline - like something for a movie or a TV show or whatever - or else I need to create a made-up deadline for myself for my own records. Otherwise, I don't write anything.

A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline.

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

I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

The moment you put a deadline on your dream,it becomes a goal.

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?" Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.

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

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

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.

I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.

I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.

I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

I love a daily deadline.

For the truth there is no deadline.

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

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

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

The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline.

The only deadline is the one I give myself.

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

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

If you send out one coupon with a deadline of a week and another that must be used within the next month, you end up having more redemptions with the one week deadline. It's really amazing. With the month deadline you have four times as much time, but people tend to say they'll use it in a few weeks' time and then they don't do it.

What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting.

There have been times when I didn't quite make my deadline.

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

A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.

For truth there is no deadline.

Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.

We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

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

There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

During trade deadline, we pretty much tell every player, look, there's lots of names, lots of everything for every player in the league. So it's best to tune it out because every team's job is to explore things and you don't like when things get out, but it's silly to kill or accentuate rumors during deadline week.

You know Washington. If the deadline is midnight, they'll start working on it at 11:30.

The transfer deadline can be a distraction if you allow it to be.

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