Quotes About Deadline

We are running out of time

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

You may delay, but time will not.

we are running out of time for dealing with this

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.

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

The only problem is time.

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

There is always time for another last minute

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

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.

People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

Then a deadline arrives and you have to cut it short. Is shipping that important? I think it is. I think the discipline of shipping is essential in the long-term path to becoming indispensable.

alternative to planning on late is to initiate before it's required, to ship before deadline, to put the idea out there before the crisis hits. This act of bravery actually gives you influence, leverage, and control in a way that planning on late never can. Dandelion

We hesitate to make a promise like "the show will be on at 11:30," because we're not sure we can meet the deadline and make it happen in a way that allows us to control the outcome.

The first step is write down the due date. Post it on the wall. It's real. You will ship on this date, done or not.

could give them on CORPS, and said he was "looking forward to seeing the article in Probe magazine." I told him I hoped it was good enough to print. He curled his lip at me. By the time I dragged through my gate, I was already late for my date

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

If I don't report on time, the biometrics wired into my central nervous system will explode, and that'll be it for me, you, and this lovely piece of functional archaeology.

I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.

The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.

They gave me six weeks to do a campaign, and I did all of Haiti in six weeks.