Deadline Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Inspiration
  • Deadline

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Fear
  • Inspiration
  • Deadline

• 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

• 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

• There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Deadline

• 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

• 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 best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

  

  Jeff MacNelly
  • Process
  • Deadline
  • Best Thing

• The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Inspiration
  • Deadline

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Working
  • Washington
  • Deadline

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

  

  Adam Savage
  • Deadline
  • Tool
  • Problem solving

• 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.'

  

  Sandra Brown
  • Book
  • Story
  • Deadline

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