Quotes About Deadline

During trade deadline, we pretty much tell every player, look, there's lots of names, lots of everything for every player in the league. So it's best to tune it out because every team's job is to explore things and you don't like when things get out, but it's silly to kill or accentuate rumors during deadline week.

I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband.

Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.

OK, so I never had a transfer in my career, but I used to love deadline day: Dimitar Berbatov turning up at Manchester airport with hours to go, Robinho coming to Manchester City instead of Chelsea.

Either I need an assignment with a strict deadline - like something for a movie or a TV show or whatever - or else I need to create a made-up deadline for myself for my own records. Otherwise, I don't write anything.

The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.

I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

I do try to deliver a solid first draft, meaning it's my tenth or twentieth draft and then I call it 'first' and hand it in, much to the chagrin of the studio sometimes when they look at the contract and go, 'You've passed your deadline.'

Suzanne Collins

Tick-tock. This is a clock.

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

A deadline is, simply put, optimism in its most kick-ass form. It's a potent force that, when wielded with respect, will level any obstacle in its path. This is especially true when it comes to creative pursuits.

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline . Give someone an enormous task, a supportive community, and a friendly-yet-firm due date, and miracles will happen.

Having an end date for your quest through the noveling unknown is like bringing along a team of jetpack-wearing, entrepreneurial Sherpas.

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever's on fire, I'm afraid.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.

Maybe that's why we did things so fast," said Jerrier Haddad, a managing engineer on the 701. "We didn't have schedules to slow us down.