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Quotes About Deadlines

tactics that businesses use to meet their deadlines or motivate their workers are a way of reapportioning that urgency: by moving up deadlines, by breaking them up into shorter chunks, by focusing the mission, by making teams interdependent. The trick is to feel that deadline effect constantly, even when the deadline itself has disappeared.
~ Christopher Cox
When you write your first book, you're writing in a vacuum; it doesn't matter how much time it takes. And then with the second book, you're on contract, and you have deadlines, and it's a little bit tougher. And also the expectations. You don't want to let your characters down.
~ Sabaa Tahir
My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work with and artists, I'm professional, and I bring my A-game every time.
~ Hope Larson
The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.
~ Unknown
My work is just a hobby. No, I wouldn't want to do it professionally. It's too hard. Deadlines are no fun. But I can sit and tweak all night and not worry about time.
~ Dick Van Dyke
Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
~ Robert Barry
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
~ Adam Savage
I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.
~ Julian Fellowes
I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.
~ Robert Barry
I like having deadlines... a film release date or a concert premiere date. It channels one's energy into doing often remarkable work that oceans of extra time would probably not improve upon.
~ William P. Perry
Working with Moschino, a real high fashion Italian brand, maybe I'm under tighter deadlines, but sometimes under tight deadlines you do your best work.
~ Jeremy Scott
Putting aid for Harvey victims in limbo because of our own inability to handle pressing deadlines in a timely manner is not only inappropriate, but it sends the wrong message to millions of Americans in Texas and millions more who put us in Washington to do a job. We owe them better.
~ Mark Meadows
Parkinson's Law: If you have only one letter to write, it will take all day to do it. If you have twenty letters to write, you'll get them done in one day.
~ John C. Maxwell
GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.
~ Mark Batterson
Your hard work and deadlines, and I'm snowballs and fun times
~ Jack Frost
Procrastination also increases stress. As things pile up, we begin to feel overwhelmed, which takes the joy out of our work. Bottom line: Procrastination is costly to all involved.
~ John G. Miller
The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.
~ John Dyer
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound as they fly by.
~ Douglas Adams
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.
~ Mark Twain
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
~ Douglas Adams
Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life.
~ Unknown
Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.
~ Brian Tracy
There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
~ Brian Tracy
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done...
~ Anonymous