Quotes About Deadline

Doctor told me I've got two weeks to live. I said: "Can I have the last week in July and the 1st week in August?"

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

talk? I live in a perpetual state of behind.

You only have till Friday," Yoko pointed out. That

what doesn't get done in 40 hours by Friday at 5 picks up again Monday morning at 9.

Without a fixed, believable deadline, you can't work calmly. When you don't trust the date, or when you think it's impossible to do everything someone's telling you to do within a specific period of time, or when someone keeps piling on more work without giving you more time, you work frantically and maniacally. Few things are as demoralizing as working on projects with no end in sight.

The longer it takes to develop, the less likely it is to launch. Make

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.

Once you've been taken, you usually have twenty-four hours left to live.

He had only just made the Elysian deadline; hanging onto the typescript until the last moment in case there was something still to be done; two sentences turned into one, one sentence broken into two, the substitution of a slightly resistant adjective to engender a moment's reflection, in short, the joys of editing, all carried out without forgetting the art that disguises art.

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 wanted to have a creative director crazy enough to say, 'Sure, I'll do a collection in five days.'

When you're writing a feature film, the moment you begin Page 1, you are in a sweat that you're running out of pages.

Since the phone conversation was none of my business, I stood and listened to it, and gathered that someone named Philip had better put in an appearance by five o'clock or else.

Twelve minutes. I can give you that.

This action step should be personal (involving you), practical (something you can do), and provable (with a deadline to do it).

It was a bold request, but she hated delay: an hour turned into a day, and a day turned into a week, and bright ideas died from lack of oxygen.

The fourth issue would go to the printer tomorrow. He was not so happy with this one: there was no big controversy. He put that out of his mind for the moment and

I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.

I had the bad guys fighting, the good guys fighting, the clock ticking.

Its inscription, "Time waits for No Man," is an old punning device on the word gnomon. At