Deadline Quotes - Page 9

• For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line.

  Bill Ford

  Progress, Lines, Finish Line

  "Ford Posts Massive Loss, to Announce 'Significant' Layoffs", www.foxnews.com. October 20, 2005.

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• There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.

  Marc Benioff

  Availability, Effort, Reliability

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• Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you think you're gonna die? Or did you long for the next distraction.

  Alanis Morissette

  Fear, Thinking, Long

  Song: All I Really Want, Album: Jagged Little Pill

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• Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Business, Korea, Years

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• My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are always struggling to meet some future or past deadline, methodological abstraction is a wise long term investment.

  Robert W. Floyd

  Wise, Struggle, Past

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• A goal is simply a dream with a deadline.

  Willie Jolley

  Dream, Goal

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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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• The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

  Chris Crutcher

  Believe, Character, Redemption

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• We remind ourselves that it's a hobby [The Esemblist]; nobody is setting these deadlines for us, except us.

  Nikka Graff Lanzarone

  Hobbies, Settings, Setting

  Source: www.broadwayworld.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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• God knows what it's like to be a human. When I talk to him about deadlines or long lines or tough times, he understands. He's been there. He's been here.

  Max Lucado

  Long, Tough Times, Lines

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I think if you're inspired, you don't let a little thing like scheduling and deadlines get in your way.

  Phil Collen

  Thinking, Littles, Way

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

  Khushwant Singh

  Years, Journalist

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

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• I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

  Peter Doig

  Painting, Ifs

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• For truth there is no deadline.

  Heywood Broun

  Truth, Honesty

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• The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

  John Dyer

  Real, Artist, Landscape

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• I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call 'real money,' I'd be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Real, Impact, Trying

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• Dreams don't have deadlines.

  LL Cool J

  Dream

  Song: No Crew Is Superior

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• There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal

  Brian Tracy (2016). “Just Shut Up and Do It: 7 Steps to Conquer Your Goals”, p.35, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Space, Pressure

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• I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Should Have, Iraq

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• Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.

  Marc Benioff

  Thinking, Resources, Insight

  Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler (2009). “Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

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• Instead of giving the effort the level of attention needed, the Air Force has wasted a year doing very little to end our reliance on Russian rocket engines, if the Air Force is unwilling to do what is necessary to meet the 2019 deadline, they are going to have to figure out how to meet our space launch needs without the RD-180 (Russian engine).

  John McCain

  Air, Years, Space

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• I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I'll work at my own pace.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Writing, Night, Two

  "Writing away again in Margaritaville". Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June, 1998.

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