Quotes About Deadline

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

Sometimes when it comes to music, effects or sound engineering, it is difficult to achieve what you want within a fixed time frame.

You do not give a great biographer a timetable. You let them do their work and, in due course, publish it.

Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear. Then rewrite it, praying you'll finish in time to send a new version by morning.

The first day of a new team on a short deadline is fascinating anthropology. Everyone tries to figure everyone else out—who is talented, who has the same taste, who is easy or hard to work with, who has status—all at the same time they're trying to figure out the project itself.

Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

I'm, uh, going up to the room Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to get ready." "You've got at least four hours before we have to leave." "Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

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

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

It's two days until tax time. I know it's late, but there is still time to deduct this show as a loss.

If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.

Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

I find it a little stressful when you're in a really nice studio and you feel time ticking and the bill getting higher.

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

I Rushed to get back before it was time.

I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear may be mild — timidity is the word I've used here. If, however, one is working under deadline — a school paper, a newspaper article, the SAT writing sample — that fear may be intense.

Best before: 19 March 2007

had less than twenty-four hours to do it. His musings were interrupted

Missing kids are tough cases. I mean, murder is bad but at least the worst has already happened to the victim—they're not going to get any deader. Missing kids come with a literal deadline, made worse by the fact that you don't get to learn the timing until it's too late.

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

You may delay, but time will not.

When you're working in cinema, you often have a very, very compressed schedule - very few weeks to just kind of go through that whole process of reflection and refining - and it has to be done.