Quotes About Deadlines

Film work can be anything from just really hard and stressful and you're subjected to really weird deadlines to really draconian and weird and disconnected. You're working in service of the thing, and that can be really amazing for everyone involved, or be kind of just a waste of time.

TV works at such amazing deadlines and the audiences you're catering to is a very different audience than the one that watches films as the attention span is less.

It may sound as though she wants a simple PowerPoint presentation about the business, but if she's hoping to persuade a client of something, you'll want your slides to help do that. Be clear, too, about deadlines and who needs to be looped in on the project.

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Assignments without deadlines are far better at producing guilt than stimulating action.

if you want the most efficient production, you must give up trying to make programmers produce. Handle their subsistence, give them their heads, and forget about deadlines.

Biodiversity decline can certainly be self-reinforcing, with inbuilt tipping points and deadlines: the Pike paper estimates that business-as-usual closes the 'window of opportunity to deal with pandemics' in 2041.

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.

I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

I'm not that guy that blows deadlines anymore.

I may not want to write every day, but I have no choice - there are deadlines to meet.

I hold Twitter completely responsible for why I always just make deadlines. But at the same time, as someone who spends most of my working time alone, I couldn't live without it.

Personally I find that deadlines are the best inspiration.

There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints.

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

LeBlanc's law: Later equals never.