Top 241 Deadline Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.
'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.
President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system.
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!
It was a national disgrace to lose the ERA, but of course we will start, and have done so, all over again. ... There is no deadline for equality in our society.
A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.
I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.
Usually composers need a reason to write. I need a deadline.
I'm not rushing into my divorce, because I'm not looking to get married tomorrow, so I don't have a deadline. I'm not rushing it. So when it's time, and it's supposed to happen, it will.
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever's on fire, I'm afraid.
The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.'
The thing about having a deadline like a baby is that it sharpens the pencil. It makes sure stuff gets done.
Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.
When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes - but that's the same with any creative outlet.
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
The record company felt wisely that we should get something out before I left 'Hamilton' or around awards time, and that deadline was not easy.
I always want to have time to experiment, and have transitional things, and have these weird non-songs, but usually the stuff I'm working on comes down to this weird deadline, where it just never happens, and it's kind of a bummer.
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.
I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.
The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.
Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.
Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.
Most film teams usually come with a tight deadline, which doesn't leave us much time to compose.
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.
For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion, such as 'Deadline.'
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.
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."
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.
When I was in college or working, I had the luxury of writing on whatever subject. Now, I'm in the business, I have a deadline and pressures. Sometimes, I have to do things that I am not in the mood for.
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 couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.
The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
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.
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.
Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.
Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.
I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.
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 find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn't hurt, either.
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.
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!
All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Now I know that I should take better care of myself when I'm under an intense deadline, or else my body is gonna act in certain ways that are not good.
I'm scared each time I start a movie, believe me. There's always a moment of panic when you're not sure if you're going to be able to meet the deadline.
Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.
The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.
There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.
I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.
I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.
I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.