Deadline Quotes

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  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

  Douglas Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Hilarious

  "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Dirk Gently, Book 3)". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

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• A goal is a dream with a deadline.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Dream, Business

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, Lulu.com

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• Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

  David Eagleman

  Hate, Effectiveness, Knows

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• The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Motivational, Death, Inspiration

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• Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.

  Andy Gilbert

  Giving, Action, Planning

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• Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

  Harvey Mackay

  Priorities, Might, Helping

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• Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Expectations

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• A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

  Harvey Mackay

  Motivational, Dream, Persistence

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• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 09, 2014

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• Deadlines and things make you creative.

  Jack White

  Creative

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

  Alyce Cornyn-Selby

  Life, Drama, Humorous

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

  Rita Mae Brown

  Business, Inspirational Life, Goal

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.145, Bantam

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

  Brian Eno

  Giving, Reason, Destination

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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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• Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

  Ben Feldman

  Running, Encouragement, Goal

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• 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

  Real, Giving, Tough Times

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.

  Harvey Mackay

  Giving, Tasks, Schedules

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• Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

  Val Kilmer

  Restriction

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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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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• We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Rushing, Trying, Appointments

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• Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Would Be, Done, Literature

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