Deadline Quotes

• Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • High
  • Moments

• A goal is a dream with a deadline.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Dream
  • Deadline
  • Goat

• 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.

  

  Daniel Berehulak
  • Up
  • Failure
  • Period

• Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Way
  • Deadline
  • Finishing

• As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Fear
  • Inspiration
  • Deadline

• A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Inspiration
  • Deadline

• With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

  

  David Benioff
  • People
  • Wait
  • Suggestion

• There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Deadline

• 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.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Done
  • Options
  • Rush

• I'm a procrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Done
  • Panic

• Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Victory

• The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

  

  Jeff MacNelly
  • Process
  • Deadline
  • Best Thing

• If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don't know them, they want me home by 9 P.M. If I have work, then I don't have a deadline. I don't argue with them. That's how I have been raised, and I'm happy with it.

  

  Tina Desai
  • Work
  • School
  • Home

• All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Time
  • Live
  • Real

• The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Inspiration
  • Deadline

• You know Washington. If the deadline is midnight, they'll start working on it at 11:30.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Working
  • Washington
  • Deadline

• I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Work
  • Deadline

• Whether we notice it or not, we spend our days negotiating for something: for our spouse to do more housework, a child to eat just three more bites or go to bed on time, an extended deadline on a project, a salary increase, a better rate on a vacation package.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Time
  • Vacation
  • Negotiation

• 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.

  

  Laurie Notaro
  • Job
  • Write
  • Funeral

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Mind

• I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

  

  Joss Whedon
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Deadline
  • Tool
  • Problem solving

• If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

  

  Dave Brubeck
  • Up
  • Work
  • Hate

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