Quotes About Deadline

I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

five seconds. At 9:30 a headquarters clerk scribbled in the

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

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

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.

Woe to the poor developer who buckles under pressure and agrees to try to make the deadline. That developer will start taking shortcuts and working extra hours in the vain hope of working a miracle.

The only way to make the deadline—the only way to go fast—is to keep the code as clean as possible at all times.

So now we enter the Death March Phase of the project. Customers are angry. Stakeholders are angry. The pressure mounts. Overtime soars. People quit. It's hell.

You may object that this was corny, but don't forget that (a) corn sells by the ton, (b) that I only had two weeks to rework an entire manuscript, and (c) that it sure a hell was a lot better than starting with the derivation of the name Lang.

We must be back in Shadizar by tomorrow night, and we have matters to settle, you and I, when this is done." "I will look forward to it," Bombatta snarled. "And I," Conan said, starting forward again, "will look back upon it.

Run through those time measurements again, Aahz grumbled. In seconds, minutes, hours.... Minutes! We've got a few minutes.

which bought me 90 days to raise the rest of the money.

Mom granted us a one-week extension.

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

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

It's do or die. D-day.

As a reminder to himself and anyone who visited his office in the shanty, Burnham posted a sign over his desk bearing a single word: RUSH.

that most exciting perversion of life; the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should truly be allowed for its doing.

We haven't the time to take our time.

Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.

It's a secret, but when I decided to apply to 'Shonen Magazine,' it was already past the deadline, so I had no choice but to go with 'Shonen Jump.' My motivation for becoming a cartoonist was... to put it bluntly, the ¥100,000 prize money.

The thing about live TV is that it simply has to be done, there's no space for procrastination.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.