Deadline Quotes
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I knew all along that they wanted me to have me and they knew that I wanted to be here. It was just a matter of negotiating to get that accomplished. It's a deadline league, and they went all the way to the deadline, but I'm just glad to be here.
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Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.
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A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.
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Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.
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When you take that to the next level of guiding a group of filmmakers to actually depict him, it's even more challenging. The one that that I think everybody involved believes is that we won't move forward with this until we believe it's right. 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.
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A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.
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We were able to meet the deadline, so already we have learned to play this game under your guidance.
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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
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I think a lot of it has to do with the trade deadline being over. Guys are comfortable now that they?re going to be here.
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A goal is simply a dream with a deadline.
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There's nothing like a deadline to get the old blood flowing. All the juices, really. It doesn't follow, if you think about it. You'd assume certain things ... certain activities ... would become unimportant. Certain betrayals would become unbearable. But they don't really. In fact, quite the opposite. Everything takes on a new light. The impossible becomes possible, desirable even. It's quite remarkable.
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President Obama decided to prematurely withdraw from Iraq for no other reason than politics. The artificial deadline for withdrawal was not determined for strategic goals but rather for a political one - his reelection timetable.
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Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.
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The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.
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We can't spell deadline, never mind meet one.
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The tighter a deadline is, the more I'm inclined to be perverse and rebellious - I'll start thinking about another, different project, until it becomes the most fantastic thing which I must start immediately.
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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.
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The moment you put a deadline on your dream,it becomes a goal.
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Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.
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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
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On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.
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I calculated that if I wrote five pages a day, which seemed very doable, I would have an 1,800-page first draft when the deadline rolled around. Though completely unwritten, I was very impressed with how long my first draft would be.
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People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.
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The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.
