Top 88 Deadline Quotes

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.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it’s more a polite suggestion.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‘He is not a lush.’ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‘Look!’

Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.

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.

If I’m right in the middle of a deadline, I’m up really early.

Cooking involves a deadline and hungry people and ingredients that expire in a week. It’s stressful. Cooking happens on the stove and on the clock. Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever’s on fire, I’m afraid.

‘Deadline’ is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what’s important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You have to begin with the end goal in mind, knowing that a goal is a dream with a deadline.

For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can’t miss a deadline; you can’t come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.

When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

I’m nicer on tax day than I am when I’m on deadline.

I’m scared each time I start a movie, believe me. There’s always a moment of panic when you’re not sure if you’re going to be able to meet the deadline.

There’s no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.

I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn’t hurt, either.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes – but that’s the same with any creative outlet.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

When you have a deadline, or when you know that your equipment is about to go up in a rocket and you won’t have another chance to fix it, your mind works in a way that it otherwise never would.

If it’s old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don’t know them, they want me home by 9 P.M. If I have work, then I don’t have a deadline. I don’t argue with them. That’s how I have been raised, and I’m happy with it.

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.

A fixed deadline and a flexible scope are the crucial combination.

Like most people I can be lazy, so it’s nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I’m outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

I always think the most important thing for a writer is a deadline, and it’s the same with a house. They say you shouldn’t make an emotional decision with a house, but I think it is the only decision you can make.

Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you’re juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you’re walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.

The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

I made a deadline for myself that if I wasn’t earning a living being a musician by ‘A Boy Named Goo,’ I was going to get back to school, get a degree, and go on with my life – and enjoy the memories I had.

There have been times when I didn’t quite make my deadline.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It’s the way that I’ve started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

You know Washington. If the deadline is midnight, they’ll start working on it at 11:30.

The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.

During trade deadline, we pretty much tell every player, look, there’s lots of names, lots of everything for every player in the league. So it’s best to tune it out because every team’s job is to explore things and you don’t like when things get out, but it’s silly to kill or accentuate rumors during deadline week.

The transfer deadline can be a distraction if you allow it to be.

‘Senna’ took five years, ‘Amy’ took three years. You try and say, ‘Look, there’s no deadline.’ That’s important. Just saying, ‘We’ve got to make the film. And once the film’s ready, it will be out there.’

But I have the most incredible support system in the world. They let me have those times when I just want to cry. But I give myself a deadline and say, today’s my sad day but tomorrow when the sun comes up it’s done.

Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement.

The record company felt wisely that we should get something out before I left ‘Hamilton’ or around awards time, and that deadline was not easy.

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.

The DoD has never undergone an audit. In 2004, it actually pledged to undergo a full audit by 2007, but that deadline came and went, and then they moved it to 2016. No one, not even the DoD, thinks they’ll actually be able to pass it in 2016.

In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination – very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.

I’m not rushing into my divorce, because I’m not looking to get married tomorrow, so I don’t have a deadline. I’m not rushing it. So when it’s time, and it’s supposed to happen, it will.

I would never finish a painting if I didn’t have a deadline.

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.

Whether we notice it or not, we spend our days negotiating for something: for our spouse to do more housework, a child to eat just three more bites or go to bed on time, an extended deadline on a project, a salary increase, a better rate on a vacation package.

What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that’s what the American people are expecting.

I really think more fledgling novelists – and many current and even established novelists – should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.

The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.

Everybody in the real world will agree – the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

I go to Buzzfeed and ‘Huff Po,’ IMDB, ‘Deadline.’ And then I just Google myself, like ‘Aasif Mandvi in a hat,’ and see what comes up.

If there’s a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I’ll work ’till exhausted.