Quotes About Deadline

The interesting thing about overthinking and procrastination is sometimes they can actually evolve into innovation and creativity in the short term. Letting an idea grow in your mind in the short term with a deadline and a plan can actually lead to innovation and creativity.

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

be in touch before the end of the day.

tardiness was allowable only in babies born past their due date.

close at three o'clock.

Remember, the execution is fixed for the day after tomorrow, and that you have but one day to work in. And what of that? Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds very many things can be done.

In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.

2 days to the U.N.

A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

Time is of the essence.

Only one shopping day left 'til tomorrow.

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

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

each day working more frenetically than the last, as if against some deadline known only to him.

I would hate to be that person who is, you know, the mystery writer who has to deliver a book every year to publisher X.

Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You have to begin with the end goal in mind, knowing that a goal is a dream with a deadline.

A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.

I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.

Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system.

The first thing is, you can't write movie music if you don't know how to write quickly.

The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.