Quotes About Deadline

How many consultants does it take to change a lightbulb? I'll have an estimate for you a week from Monday.

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.

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

I have a terrible work ethic. The best way for me to do anything in life is for someone to say, 'You need to do this by this time, or you're in trouble'.

I have this reporter's temperament still in me - I thrive under pressure.

With film sometimes you're thrown in there and you literally hit the ground running, taking your best shot and just leave it up to the editing.

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

I don't respond well to time pressure - when you're in the studio, with the clock ticking, and the record company's waiting for you to lay a golden egg. Wherever it is my music comes from, it just doesn't show up when the pressure is on.

Most film teams usually come with a tight deadline, which doesn't leave us much time to compose.

In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project.

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.

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.

Because there wasn't enough time to play 54

It's just a matter of time before we're late.

I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

Let's make it short and sweet," Mama interrupted. "In other words, you won't have it done by Passover? In that case I'll send for the other shoemaker." "Why shouldn't I have them done?" he said, wriggling. "For you, I'll put off the rest of the work. Your shoes, with God's help, will have to be finished for Passover. And no excuses!

We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.

felt under the gun in the past

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.

I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days.

When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur.

I always told my parents, 'Just give me till I'm 27 to do comedy, to make it'.