Deadline Quotes - Page 7

• I've never sat down to quantify how many hours I actually spend on the strip. I use the deadlines to estimate my progress; each month I know that I have to produce so many strips, and by the end of the month I'll make sure that I have.

  Bill Watterson

  Progress, Each Month, Use

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• It really does seem that the Democrat's problem isn't that they're calling for timetables - it's that they're calling them 'timetables'. You're up against Bush and the Republicans - you've got to bring some zing. Don't call them timetables - call them 'Patriot Dates', 'Freedom Deadlines'... 'Glory Goals'.

  Jon Stewart

  Goal, Doe, Zing

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• For the truth there is no deadline.

  Heywood Broun

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• Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

  Diane Ackerman

  Block, Luxury, People

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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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• I haven't fully moved over to the iPad. At any given time, I have about four DVDs in my pocket. I'm constantly screening 'Top Chef,' 'Housewives,' and all the other shows we have in development, racing to meet a deadline. So I pretty much bring my laptop everywhere.

  Andy Cohen

  Dvds, Ipads, Racing

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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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• Empower your dreams with deadlines.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Dream, Empowering, Your Dreams

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• I taught everyone a very bad lesson at my publisher because they actually gave me deadlines this time and I'm now meeting them. I used to say, "Here's my book; it's six years late." I'm so much faster now, and work differently. With all the years of writing, I think I still draft as obsessively, but I think back to writing. On your first story, you start at draft one. On your second story, you start at draft ten. On your third story, you start at draft one hundred. If you need a hundred and eight drafts, you may write eight instead of a hundred and eight.

  Nathan Englander

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

  Matt Stone

  Source: www.ign.com

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• In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

  Julian Castro

  Dream, Generations, Lines

  "Michelle Obama makes the political and personal case for four more years" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.

  Serj Tankian

  Writing, Goal, Different

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• I think I've learned over the years, because you'd have to be stupid not to, that when a book publisher gives you a deadline they're just kidding for the most part. I don't know what they do with it, it's like you send them your book and they just hold it in their hands for like six months and I don't know why, and you realize you probably had more time.

  Dave Barry

  Stupid, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work with and artists, I'm professional, and I bring my A-game every time.

  Hope Larson

  Passion, Writing, Artist

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I open my heart to God's timing. I release my deadlines, agendas, and stridency to the gentle yet often swift pacing of God. As I open my heart to God's unfoldings, my heart attains peace. As I relax into God's timing, my heart contains comfort. As I allow God to set the tone and schedule of my days, I find myself in the right time and place, open and available to God's opportunities.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, God, Letting Go

  Julia Cameron (1997). “Heart Steps”, p.48, Penguin

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• Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life.

  Glynis Nunn

  Dream, Mean, Goal

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• A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline.

  Rheta Grimsley Johnson

  Life And Love, Men, Drones

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• Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases bring crop-withering heat waves, more-destructive storms, more-intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize.

  Lester R. Brown

  Fall, Ice, Fire

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• Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.

  Russell Baker

  Empty Mind, People, Brain

  Russell Baker (1991). “There's a Country in My Cellar”, Avon Books

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• Casting is sometimes like going to a party. You get there and everybody at the party is wonderful. They're funny, they're interesting, and the next time you go to a party, you kind of want those same people there. I do find myself going back to a lot of the same actors I've worked with because it was fun, it was good and I know they can do the job. When we have tight deadlines to cast a project, that's how some decisions are made.

  Andrea Romano

  Fun, Party, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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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• If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original. ... I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ... I don't need time, I need a deadline. ...There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ... Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

  Duke Ellington

  Play, Two, Mistress

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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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• In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out.

  Achy Obejas

  Literature, Journalism, Neat

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

  Robert Herjavec

  Dream, Goal, Just A Dream

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