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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Television is all about deadlines.
I am a person who works to deadlines.
I'm not that guy that blows deadlines anymore.
Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.
I may not want to write every day, but I have no choice - there are deadlines to meet.
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.
One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.
The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.
I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.
There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines.
I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.
When I'm shooting, it averages out at a 16-hour day. You have two deadlines everyday - lunch and wrap.
I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.
Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.
I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.
I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
I'm not organised, and I don't cope well with deadlines, structure and routine. I'm chaotic. Always have been.
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.
I don't have these crazy deadlines. I don't have this, 'Oh it's got to be out tomorrow.' I don't like working like that.
Nothing shatters the relationship between you and your boss like you failing to meet expectations, deadlines, and goals.
My only problem, and this has been a constant worry on television, is time management. The deadlines on television are killing.
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.
Deadlines are great for customers because having one means they get a product, not just a promise that someday they'll get a product.
It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.
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.
Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.
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.
Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.
I enjoy what I do. The only burden is the deadlines. Plus, composing background scores is a thankless job; it is not perceived as a significant thing.
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.
Political cartoonists get hung up on daily deadlines and the front page. The worst thing you can do is open up the newspaper and ask, 'What's funny about this?'
We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.
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.
We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.
Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.
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.
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.
Overdeliver on promises and deadlines. Show up early, deliver your product early, and deliver more than you promised. Overdeliver now, and in the future, you will be overpaid.
I've been a freelancer my entire career, and, at any given time, I have several deadlines for all sorts of things, whether it's some magazine piece or ad copywriting or anything.
When I'm working on comics, I have to give myself a million deadlines, or I'd never get anything done. Comics are just so hard to make - I find it very difficult to motivate myself.
People still struggle with this notion of gifted writers somehow being in touch with a higher power, but it's all about showing up and doing the job, meeting deadlines, working hard.
