Quotes About Deadline

What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting.

If you have five weeks to write an episode of television or seven months to write a movie or several years to write a book, each of those things is going to be better than a live television show.

needed to be done in the next day and a half.

If she didn't have a deadline hanging over her head like a guillotine blade, she couldn't focus worth a damn.

Qwilleran worked hard and fast at the office that day, while the clerk in the Feature Department intercepted all phone calls and uninvited visitors with the simple explanation that permits no appeal, no argument, no exceptions. "Sorry, he's on deadline.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

If your goal is to deliver a product that meets a known and unchanging specification, then try a repeatable process. However, if your goal is to deliver a valuable product to a customer within some targeted boundaries, when change and deadlines are significant factors, then reliable Agile processes work better.

I told Lee people in the chocolate business can't take honeymoons until the last bunny's been sold.

Bon. Il ne te reste plus que cinq minutes pour arriver à prononcer une phrase de sept mots, c'est faisable, non? Allez, badinait-il pour de faux, si c'est trop, sept, trois me suffiraient...Mais les bons, hein? Merde! J'ai pas composté mon billet...Alors?

could spill over to hysteria as the hours and minutes ticked towards the edition deadline. The news editors had phones glued to their ears,

A common, simple way to develop kill criteria is with "states and dates:" "If by (date), I have/haven't (reached a particular state), I'll quit.

However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

We shot 'Lucas' in 42 days; that's a lot of filming.

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

When you have a deadline, or when you know that your equipment is about to go up in a rocket and you won't have another chance to fix it, your mind works in a way that it otherwise never would.

The National guys will tell you the same thing - I tend to work until the last possible minute.

When time, money, and results are on the line, it's easy for tension to build.