Top 194 Deadlines Quotes & Sayings

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

Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

Singles have goals, responsibilities, deadlines, events, and friends that occupy their time, as well they should. Nonetheless, before any goals are achieved, responsibilities are fulfilled, deadlines are met, events are attended or friends are visited, God's purpose should be accomplished.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

Empower your dreams with deadlines.

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

Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

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

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

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

I think if you're inspired, you don't let a little thing like scheduling and deadlines get in your way.

Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.

Goals are just dreams with deadlines.

Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.

I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.

When I'm shooting, it averages out at a 16-hour day. You have two deadlines everyday - lunch and wrap.

Dreams don't have deadlines.

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.

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.

GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.

Meeting external deadlines is much harder than meeting internal ones. On the other hand, internal deadlines sometimes don't feel real, and are therefore easy to evade.

Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

I am a person who works to deadlines.

Television is all about deadlines.

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.

Dreams don't have deadlines. Believe in yourself.

Deadlines and things make you creative.

Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

I'm not that guy that blows deadlines anymore.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

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

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

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

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

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.

You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

Working with Moschino, a real high fashion Italian brand, maybe I'm under tighter deadlines, but sometimes under tight deadlines you do your best work.

We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.

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

I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper. I feel like part of that is because I'm always on deadline. I've been a freelancer my entire career and, at any given time, I have several deadlines for all sorts of things whether it's some magazine piece or ad copywriting or anything. Obviously, people with deadlines keep journals all the time but, for me, the idea of doing more writing is never appealing. It's why I never blog.

You're working yourself till late at night, and sleeping crazy with deadlines - you're doing it for a reason.

I may not want to write every day, but I have no choice - there are deadlines to meet.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

Personally I find that deadlines are the best inspiration.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.

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

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

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

I'm not organised, and I don't cope well with deadlines, structure and routine. I'm chaotic. Always have been.