Quotes About Deadline

Most lawsuits against the EPA historically have come either because of the agency's lack of regard for a statute or because the EPA failed in an obligation or deadline.

I never got the chance to put drums on 'Watersigns,' because the company was in a rush to release it - and me.

We've written for network television, where you have to worry about hitting these ad breaks, you have to worry about 42 minutes and 10 seconds exactly.

I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.

I have a lot of tailors. If I want something made in 12 hours, it will be made in 12 hours.

I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.

Man, the only thing that's important is what is due tomorrow. I don't care what it is as long as it's good.

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

The moment you've brought a toothbrush to work, then you're getting into crunch time.

I haven't fully moved over to the iPad. At any given time, I have about four DVDs in my pocket. I'm constantly screening 'Top Chef,' 'Housewives,' and all the other shows we have in development, racing to meet a deadline. So I pretty much bring my laptop everywhere.

Twenty-two hours, forty-seven minutes, and eighteen seconds to go!

Storming was what took place in the frantic days at the end of each month as each enterprise tried to fulfil its monthly plan.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.

The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.

I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.

Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

If we do not set the time limits, we can get caught up in the process and never achieve the goal

Impatience is a form of fear: fear of running out of time.

people who says they are running out of time, I think they don't know how to manage tasks/work and to prioritize it.

I was talking to my lawyer and he was saying we have to meet with somebody right away because they really want to get something done. I said, okay, how about tomorrow? He said, 'Well no, it's going to take at least two weeks.' And I had to explain, 'Where I'm from, right away means if we don't do something in half an hour somebody dies.