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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  "Under age gun: when less time can mean better problem-solving" by Adam Savage, www.wired.com. February 11, 2013.

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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.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Time, Bills

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Water, Goal

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2014

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• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Skills, Ideas

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• One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

  Emile Zola

  Style, Anvils, Terrible

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" by Elizabeth Knowles and Angela Partington, (p. 840), 1999.

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• If I'm right in the middle of a deadline, I'm up really early.

  Marilu Henner

  Middle, Ifs

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• 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, Thinking, Sick

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• If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

  Wayne White

  Pay, Hell, Kurds

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• True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Patience, Lying, Way

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• Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Soccer, Running, Nice

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• At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

  Alanis Morissette

  Book, Writing, Breathing

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• There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

  Ronald Steel

  Relationship, Sandwiches, Enough

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• But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

  Diana Nyad

  Lines, Finish Line

  Twitter post from Apr 07, 2015

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• The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

  Margaret Haddix

  Book, Stories, Noon

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• It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Birthday, Somewhere Else, Careers

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• I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

  Ken Buck

  Believe, Enemy, Don't Believe

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Song, Years, Two

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• 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.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Pressure, Honest, My Time

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• There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines.

  Matthew Lesko

  Different, Requirements, Program

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• In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.

  Joe Shuster

  Artist, Imagination, Speak

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• I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

  Michael Chabon

  Thinking, Done, Helping

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• Dreams don't have deadlines. Believe in yourself.

  LL Cool J

  Dream, Believe, Believe In Yourself

  "Grammys 2015 Live Updates: Winners, Best Moments, Speeches, Photos And More". Grammys Live Coverage, www.ibtimes.com. February 8, 2015.

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• I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.

  Tim Vine

  Coffee, Writing, Thinking

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