Deadline Quotes

1. "A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but the deadline is always there."
Author: A.A. Patawaran

2. "There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline."
Author: Adriana Trigiani

3. "Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on on with it lodged in you. Sometimes I feel like I have swallowed a pile of stones. Grief makes me heavy. It makes me slow. Even on days when I laugh a lot, or dance, or finish a project, or meet a deadline, or celebrate, or make love, it is there. Lodged deep inside of me."
Author: Ann Hood

4. "I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline."
Author: Arthur Godfrey

5. "That, precisely, is the deadliness of second-handers. They have no concern for facts, ideas, work. They're concerned only with people. They don't ask: 'Is this true?' They ask: 'Is this what others think is true?' Not to judge, but to repeat. Not to do, but to give the impression of doing. Not creation, but show. Not ability, but friendship. Not merit, but pull. What would happen to the world without those who do, think, work, produce? Those are the egotists. You don't think through another's brain and you don't work through another's hands. When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life."
Author: Ayn Rand

6. "Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am."
Author: Charles Frazier

7. "Write as much as you can.As fast as you can.Finish your shit.Hit your deadlines. Try very hard not to suck."
Author: Chuck Wendig

8. "...a deadline should not prevent you from writing, but writing will help prevent you from missing your deadline. Then write a word. Then remind yourself of that again. And then write another and hey, look at you! You're spitting in that deadline's eye."
Author: Courtney Summers

9. "Art is a high calling – fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others – indeed as anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit."
Author: David Bayles

10. "Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now."
Author: David Lindsay Abaire

11. "I don't need time, I need a deadline."
Author: Duke Ellington

12. "But i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline"
Author: Emily Giffin

13. "Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific."
Author: Eric Gill

14. "Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great."
Author: Graham Brown

15. "Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it."
Author: Harvey MacKay

16. "A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline."
Author: Harvey MacKay

17. "[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I'd seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people to meetWhat about our own two feet.Sullen faces like slates of grey...What I'd see most anyday."
Author: Jess C. Scott

18. "Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive."
Author: Jill Abramson

19. "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."
Author: Joe Shuster

20. "We can draw no deadlines for God. He hastens or He delays as he sees fit. And his timing is all-loving toward his children. On, that we might learn to be patient in the hour of darkness. I don't mean that we make peace with darkness. We fight for joy. But we fight as those who are saved by grace and held by Christ. We say...that our night will soon- in God's good timing- turn to day."
Author: John Piper

21. "Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline."
Author: Julius Schwartz

22. "Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seem the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem."
Author: Kelly Bingham

23. "Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting."
Author: Kristin Armstrong

24. "I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline."
Author: Laurie Notaro

25. "Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage."
Author: Laurie R. King

26. "Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it."
Author: LL Cool J

27. "Wasted strokes, like missed deadlines, are preventable and costly."
Author: Lorii Myers

28. "I never expect appreciation. I always set a deadline for the things I have to do to be a successful person, when I complete them, I give myself a piece of candy, a glass of tea and some free time to enjoy- that is how I honor my hardworking and appreciate my struggles."
Author: M.F. Moonzajer

29. "The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon."
Author: Margaret Haddix

30. "No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it is arbitrary, without it, we're lost, wholly incapable of separating the Romantic from the Victorian in our sad, bewildering lives..."
Author: Marisha Pessl

31. "We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline."
Author: Menachem Mendel Schneerson

32. "I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done."
Author: Michael Chabon

33. "It was just a lie that seemed real.It was a promise that was never meant to be true.The forever that had a deadline.It felt like falling in love, but it was falling in aheartbreak café!"
Author: Moffat Machingura

34. "The ultimate inspiration is the deadline."
Author: Nolan Bushnell

35. "I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline."
Author: Peter Doig

36. "I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block."
Author: Questlove

37. "From: Beth Fremont To: Jennifer Scribner-Snyder Sent: Thurs, 09/30/1999 3:42 PM Subject: If you were Superman … … and you could choose any alter ego you wanted, why the hell would you choose to spend your Clark Kent hours — which already suck because you have to wear glasses and you can't fly — at a newspaper? Why not pose as a wealthy playboy like Batman? Or the leader of a small but important nation like Black Panther? Why would you choose to spend your days on deadline, making crap money, dealing with terminally crabby editors?"
Author: Rainbow Rowell

38. "In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration."
Author: Richard Holbrooke

39. "Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face."
Author: Rick Riordan

40. "A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
Author: Rita Mae Brown

41. "I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written."
Author: Robert M. Gates

42. "The deadline is set and they think I am their pet."
Author: Santosh Kalwar

43. "I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back."
Author: Sloane Crosley

44. "'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one."
Author: The Weeknd

45. "I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would."
Author: Thomas Mars

46. "There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other:1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20).2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines."
Author: Timothy Ferriss

47. "Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things."
Author: Val Kilmer

48. "Writing comics? Still the best job in the world. I sit around all day making shit up and see it illustrated, in 99% of cases, exactly as I imagined it -- if not better. I've been doing this a long time now, and I'm going to do it until I die. Which probably won't be long, given the constant insane deadline pressure."
Author: Warren Ellis

49. "I came across a contemporary version of the twenty-third Psalm entitled "Psalm 23 Revisited." In it, the author captures perfectly where many of us are today: The clock is my dictator, I shall not rest. It makes me lie down only when exhausted. It leads me into deep depression, it hounds my soul. It leads me in circles of frenzy for activities' sake. Even though I run frantically from task to task, I will never get it all done, for my "ideal" is with me. Deadlines and my need for approval, they drive me. They demand performance from me, beyond the limits of my schedule. They anoint my head with migraines, my in-basket overflows. Surely fatigue and time pressure shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the bonds of frustration forever.1"
Author: Wayne Cordeiro

50. "If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay."
Author: Wayne White

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