Deadline Quotes
Deadline Quote of the day
Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.
I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.
Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.
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.
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.
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.
I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.
Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.
I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.
The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.
There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.
Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.
Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.
Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.
The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.
One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.
I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
