Deadline Quotes - Page 6

• The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

  Judith Weir

  Good Enough, Danger, Accepting

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• I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?

  Judith Weir

  Finishing, Wonder, Ifs

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• At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.

  John McNally

  Writing, Giving, Decision

  John McNally (2010). “The Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist”, p.75, University of Iowa Press

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• The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.

  John Perry

  Tasks, Bars, Common

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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• I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

  Sloane Crosley

  Writing, Weekend, Vacation

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• I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

  Julian Fellowes

  Thinking, People, Envy

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• I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

  Lucy Hawking

  Order, Priorities, Important

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• When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

  Zaha Hadid

  Crazy, Mean, Sleep

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• I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book.

  Heidi Klum

  Book, Writing, Months

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• Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

  Harvey Mackay

  People, Goal, Missing

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• I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

  Laurie Notaro

  Taxes, Tax Day

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• There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion, Men, Lazy Man

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.

  David Letterman

  Writing, Two, Needs

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• But we are almost certainly going to miss our [global warming] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back, and by the time a new global agreement to replace the Kyoto accord is negotiated and put into effect, there will probably not be enough time left to stop the warming short of the point where we must not go.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Agreement, Years, Kyoto

  "Four harsh truths about climate change". www.woodstocksentinelreview.com. December 4, 2008.

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• Empower your dreams with deadlines.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Dream, Empowering, Your Dreams

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• I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline I have to. I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can't make myself finish something unless I am forced

  Ben Folds

  Song, Writing, Years

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• There are a lot of problems in the world, a lot of tragic things that have to be addressed, economic, medical, political, all kinds of things, but, to my way of thinking, they pale in comparison to the overall problem of the environmental deadline.

  Dean Stockwell

  Thinking, Political, Environmental

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• There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other:
  1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20).
  2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).
  The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.

  Tim Ferriss

  Law, Two, Important

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• I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.

  Questlove

  Block, Writing, Machines

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• I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.

  Ellen Goodman

  Writing, Add, Few Words

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• To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

  Simon Winchester

  Old Habits, Honest, Stills

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• In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can always reach you. Do what's asked of you if your conscience can bear it. But know that, five years from now, as fans or prospective employers are looking over your published pages, no one will care that this story sucks because the publisher moved the deadline up or because the editor made you work an android cow into the story. All they will care about is what they see in front of them, and they will hold you responsible for it, no one else.

  Mark Waid

  Running, Years, Editors

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• Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline.

  Julius Schwartz

  Lying, Lasts, Mets

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• I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

  Robert M. Gates

  Wish, Way, Constitution

  "Interview with Defense Secretary Robert Gates on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 20, 2010.

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• Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

  Sam Donaldson

  Jobs, People, Needs

  Sam Donaldson (1988). “Hold On, Mr. President”, Fawcett Books

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