Quotes About Deadline

I will admit that I purposely stress myself out. But I think I like stressing myself out. There's a glamour to, like, 'I've got to get to the airport!' I just like the caricature.

It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch lines and captions. Be funny now! And if you're not inspired, they don't care - be funny now! They have to fill that hole the next day.

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.

I want to get married before I'm 30. And I'd like to win an Oscar before then.

The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes - but that's the same with any creative outlet.

Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.

One of the interesting things I've found is that crunch is the result of crunch culture rather than the result of managers coming and saying, 'Okay, we've gotta work overtime.'

Meeting the deadline is not what this is all about. What this is about is looking like you're trying your damnedest to meet the deadline. In this age of "lean and mean," it is positively unsafe for you to run the project with a lean (optimal) staff.

People under time pressure don't work better - they just work faster.

we don't work overtime so much to get the work done on time as to shield ourselves from blame when the work inevitably doesn't get done on time.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

It's kind of a crazy art form, movies, in that you have to get it right the day you do it, generally.

error. It was Saturday evening, February 25, 2006, and I had twenty-four hours

Does the salesman like this information? Yes, because you've exposed your deadline to him without knowing his.

in case the dead ones rolled in late.

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.

Venom,' we worked all the way up until the release. It was one of the latest things you could possibly push the schedule to. We actually finished it two weeks before it had to go everywhere throughout the world.

I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.

Debs slapped the magazine away, making a thwack noise that sounded unnaturally loud in the hushed and clinical elegance of the waiting area. "I'm giving him five more minutes," she snarled.

Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from breaking out the

I tend to work towards specific exhibitions, so there will often be a big push towards the end when we're finishing off a bunch of stuff.

The great thing about doing a show in New York is that you can work until the night before.

I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.