Deadline Quotes

• 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.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Cities
  • Areas
  • Traffic

• Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.

  

  Hampton Fancher
  • Death
  • Stuff
  • Hollywood's

• We had no real musical goals as such but we did set ourselves a deadline. That was... give it two years and if nothing else happens at least let's have a great time... and we sure did!!!

  

  Nick Van Eede Cutting Crew
  • Goals
  • Deadline
  • Great Time

• A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Real
  • Decision
  • Beginning

• A goal is simply a dream with a deadline.

  

  Willie Jolley
  • Dream
  • Goal
  • Deadline

• The moment you put a deadline on your dream,it becomes a goal.

  

  Harsha Bhogle
  • Dream
  • Goal
  • Deadline

• 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.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Struggle
  • Spirit
  • Sick

• A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

  

  Alyce Cornyn-Selby
  • Drama
  • Method
  • Deadline

• Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Experiment
  • Deadline
  • Context

• 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.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Character
  • Stories
  • Born

• I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Missing
  • Deadline

• 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.

  

  Walter Wykes
  • Thinking
  • Impossible
  • Betrayal

• We were able to meet the deadline, so already we have learned to play this game under your guidance.

  

  Abdullah Gul
  • Game
  • Guidance
  • Deadline

• 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.

  

  Michael Ramirez
  • Reason
  • Determined
  • Timetable

• 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.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Guys
  • Trade
  • Deadline

• On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

  

  Davy Rothbart
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Deadline

• 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.

  

  Michael Showalter
  • Deadline
  • Impressed
  • Unwritten

• 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.

  

  Errollyn Wallen
  • Thinking
  • Project
  • Deadline

• 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.

  

  Charlie Clouser
  • Needs
  • Enjoy
  • Devices

• 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.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Sleep
  • Inspired
  • Deadline

• We can't spell deadline, never mind meet one.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Mind
  • Meet
  • Deadline

• 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.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Waiting

• Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Names
  • Lines
  • Deadline

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