Deadline Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• Working with Moschino, a real high fashion Italian brand, maybe I'm under tighter deadlines, but sometimes under tight deadlines you do your best work.

  Jeremy Scott

  Fashion, Real, Italian

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

  Newt Gingrich

  Withdrawal, Defeat

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• The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

  Angela Carter

  Iron, Sheets, Urgent

  "The stories of our lives" by Carmen Callil, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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• 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

  Long, Would Be, Pages

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• Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

  Neil Gaiman

  Classic, Should, Wiser

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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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• 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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• When I am writing a novel, though, then it's usually three or four hours a day. Ideally, right after lunch until three or four, but sometimes picking up again around ten, going until a touch after midnight. I rarely write in the morning, unless I'm on deadline. I do like rewriting in the morning, though. Guess it's the way my brain's put together. Or, the way it's falling apart.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Morning, Fall, Writing

  Source: www.buffaloalmanack.com

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• I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.

  Robert Barry

  Artist, Giving, Want

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

  Matt Stone

  Source: www.ign.com

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• You're working yourself till late at night, and sleeping crazy with deadlines - you're doing it for a reason.

  Gary Kraftsow

  Crazy, Sleep, Night

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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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• 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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• I always thought that digital first was a simplistic notion, and I am not even sure quite what it means. It should be stories first. Let's take the Paris story: the New York Times covered it all day, we held nothing back. Everything we learned, we published online. Then, when you approach your print deadline, you have to do two things. You have to polish those stories that are online because print is less forgiving of mistakes. Secondly, in an ideal world, you pick one thing that will feel fresh and compelling to people in the morning when they pick up the print paper.

  Dean Baquet

  Morning, Mistake, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?" Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Real, Sunday, Years

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• Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'

  Tom Robbins

  Rushing, Goal, Wish

  "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas". Book by Tom Robbins, 1994.

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• Pause for a moment and check where your own heart and thoughts are. Are you focused on the things that matter most? How you spend your quiet time may provide a valuable clue. Where do your thoughts go when the pressure of deadlines is gone? Are your thoughts and heart focused on those short-lived fleeting things that matter only in the moment or on things that matter most?

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Gone, Fleeting

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• When life tends to get too complex, too fast, too cluttered, too deadline oriented, or too type A for you, stop and remember your own spirit. You're headed for inspiration, a simple, peaceful place where you're in harmony with the perfect timing of all creation.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspiration, Simple, Perfect

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

  Brian Tracy

  Dream, Writing, Goal

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.28, Jaico Publishing House

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• When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Typewriters, Doors

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

  Brian Tracy

  Real, Goal, Decision

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat that Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You get caught up sometimes in the deadlines and the pressures and certain things that you can't really control that you forget that this is supposed to be an enjoyable journey.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Journey, Pressure, Forget

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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