Quotes About Deadline

We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.

Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.

There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.

I say to people, 'Do you have any idea how hard it is to do that, to write 7,000 words in 10 hours or 12 hours for the front page of the 'New York Times' and to know that they trust you so much that that it's going to lead the paper?' It's hard. I mean, it's a feat.

If you're not on your way to becoming a veterinarian in six weeks, you will be dead.

oh, they had to go before the end they had to be back at ten

On deadline days, though, "my best time is around eleven at night. There is absolutely no distraction to be had. You're pretty much shackled to your desk." She pauses. "There's something really nice about that.

The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday.

I do my work at the same time each day — the last minute.

The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow.

Only one shopping day left 'til tomorrow.

The process of leading a team that has never worked together before to accomplish something that has never been done before in a given amount of time with a limited amount of money

It is imperative that your work habits from school do not make their way into your book writing process. I am talking about the practice of typing the last words just before the deadline every time you would hand in an assignment, a paper, or even a thesis. Your book needs time to mature, and you must allow yourself the luxury of rewriting and editing until you are satisfied.

Fortunately or unfortunately, NaNoWriMo requires you to write at a breakneck pace, so I got used to just pushing on through.

I was in a weight-cutting sport, in judo, so I had to be a certain weight on a deadline. It kind of pushed me into having a really unhealthy relationship with food in my teens. I felt like if I wasn't exactly on weight, I wasn't good-looking.

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

The work pressure in a daily is much. There is no time to etch out characters.

On every show I've ever done, one of the first network notes is, 'You have to put a time clock on this thing.'

Men who work at Time have a life expectancy which is not long said the young man from Newsweek

Work gets done in the time available.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion

suggested it would be sometime in the second quarter of that year. At the first NeXT retreat back in late 1985, he had refused to budge, despite Joanna Hoffman's pushback, from his commitment to have the machine finished in early 1987. Now it was clear

When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?" Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.

Which meant he had about eight weeks to pull something amazing out of his butt. His butt was not being terribly helpful.