Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
You know Washington. If the deadline is midnight, they'll start working on it at 11:30.
Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.
I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would.
The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.
I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.
In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.
I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.
Most film teams usually come with a tight deadline, which doesn't leave us much time to compose.
Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.
We remind ourselves that it's a hobby [The Esemblist]; nobody is setting these deadlines for us, except us.
The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.
Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.
Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever's on fire, I'm afraid.
President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system.
Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.
I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.
Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.
When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.
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 go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.
For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.
In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.
The record company felt wisely that we should get something out before I left 'Hamilton' or around awards time, and that deadline was not easy.
At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.
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.
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.
Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.
The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
Now I know that I should take better care of myself when I'm under an intense deadline, or else my body is gonna act in certain ways that are not good.
I'm scared each time I start a movie, believe me. There's always a moment of panic when you're not sure if you're going to be able to meet the deadline.
For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion, such as 'Deadline.'
My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive when there's less panic.
'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.
There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.
What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting.
To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.
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.
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.