Top 100 Deadline Quotes
#1. Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.
Newt Gingrich
#2. I'm a big believer that dreams don't have deadlines!
LL Cool J
#3. Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.
Dave Barry
#4. Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.
Andy Gilbert
#5. We need stressful days in order to be happy. We need days when we get zero sleep and are working tirelessly on a deadline. Because if we didn't, the lazy days wouldn't feel good ... We need to always be working towards something in order to feel useful and have a sense of purpose.
Ryan O'Connell
#6. '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.'
Asif Kapadia
#7. The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.
Kevin Thoman
#8. 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.
Nick Turse
#9. 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.
Carmen Agra Deedy
#10. I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.
Marchette Chute
#11. 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
#12. The word deadline is defined as "a boundary line in a prison that prisoners can cross only at the risk of being shot." I
Gary Reilly
#13. I write because it feels good, and I don't have a deadline, and I don't have people telling me what they want me to write. Maybe if I did, I wouldn't be very good at it.
Nikki Reed
#14. Every dream has a deadline.
Then a good dreamer must ignore the deadline.
Mahir Pradana
#15. I do sit down every day and make myself write. I want 2,000 words every day or 3 single-space pages a day. I think if you are on a deadline, you have to be disciplined. If you turn things in late, you will find yourself without a contract.
Michelle Moran
#17. I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to write most of my books right before the deadline. I'm trying to work on that, but so far, I'm not getting any more organized.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#18. 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.
Khloe Kardashian
#19. The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. Give someone an enormous task, a supportive community, and a friendly-yet-firm due date, and miracles will happen.
Chris Baty
#20. What does the absolutely final deadline apply to? What book?"
If there was one book that did not cry out for a sequel, it was "Death of a Doge". "Don't you remember what an awful time you had writing that book?
Martha Grimes
#21. 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.
Harvey MacKay
#22. The European Commission granted France an extra two years to meet its mandated budget deficit target of 3% of GDP. The deadline had already been extended by two years in 2013. It gave little explanation for the latest extension, which disappointed fiscal hawks.
Anonymous
#23. 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.
Dan Webster
#24. I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
Dan Jenkins
#25. Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
Adam Savage
#26. I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
Sloane Crosley
#27. It is the only way of meeting the deadline, they think.
Martin Lippert
#28. Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.
Brian Eno
#29. I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?
Judith Weir
#30. There is no deadline when it comes to setting a goal for yourself !!!
Tawana Beecham
#31. I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.
Hunter S. Thompson
#32. I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
Laurie Notaro
#33. A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
Karl Kraus
#34. Either I need an assignment with a strict deadline - like something for a movie or a TV show or whatever - or else I need to create a made-up deadline for myself for my own records. Otherwise, I don't write anything.
Adam Schlesinger
#35. In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.
Godfrey Gao
#36. I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.
Laurie Notaro
#39. 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
#40. Dreams don't have deadlines ...
LL Cool J
#41. Remember never to text and drive, it's bad grammar, even if you have a deadline. You might cross the line and dead may be your destination. Think about it!!
Neil Leckman
#42. 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
#43. I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
Adam Savage
#44. Your feelings are the utmost priority, your desires are more important than anyone else's deadline or mandate.
Regena Thomashauer
#45. A deadline should not prevent you from writing, but writing will help prevent you from missing your deadline. Then write a word. Then remind yourself of that again. And then write another and hey, look at you! You're spitting in that deadline's eye.
Courtney Summers
#46. Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
Tom Peters
#47. 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.
Oscar Hammerstein II
#48. I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.
Garrison Keillor
#49. 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.
Dave Brubeck
#50. It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
Francis Ford Coppola
#51. 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 at Zomick's Bakery is slow and leisurely.
Zomick's Bakery
#52. Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
Peter Gabriel
#53. Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.
William Monahan
#54. I knew I was putting you under immense pressure when I rejected your work the other day. I set an impossible deadline - yet you have met it with work that I can only call outstanding. As your teacher, I had to push you to your limits so that you could recognize your own true potential.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#55. I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that.
Robert Barry
#56. 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.
Carl Honore
#57. The deadline is set and they think I am their pet.
Santosh Kalwar
#58. My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
Seamus Heaney
#59. 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
#60. Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
David Eagleman
#61. The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.
Charlie Clouser
#62. More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
#63. You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes.
Joss Whedon
#64. You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.
Chris Crutcher
#65. Then a deadline arrives and you have to cut it short. Is shipping that important? I think it is. I think the discipline of shipping is essential in the long-term path to becoming indispensable.
Seth Godin
#66. If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work ... the people around you just have to understand.
Catherine Yass
#67. Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.
Henry Cloud
#68. There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.
David Allen
#69. The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.
Matt Lauer
#70. As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#71. The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.
Harsha Bhogle
#72. It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons inspections enforcement mechanism. If so, the only exit strategy is victory, this is our common mission and the world's cause.
John F. Kerry
#75. A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end.
Brian Tracy
#76. Some people worked well with daily discipline, but she'd always been more of a need-a-deadline or consumed-by-vision artist.
Melissa Marr
#77. A deadline is a finish line. Don't stop 'til the door shuts in your face!
Raven Moore
#78. If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.
Wayne White
#79. Now I know that I should take better care of myself when I'm under an intense deadline, or else my body is gonna act in certain ways that are not good.
Tyra Banks
#80. I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline ... What we have said all along is that this is not an open-ended process, we are not in this just to talk for talk's sake ... We expect prompt, concrete steps to be taken over the next couple of weeks.
Barack Obama
#81. Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.
Dan Povenmire
#82. The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.
Christopher Buckley
#83. If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.
George R R Martin
#84. I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines.
David Edelstein
#85. Deadlines and things make you creative.
Jack White
#87. Assign a deadline to your biggest objectives and stick to it so they don't become just another litany of "what ifs" and sad regrets.
Carlos Wallace
#88. 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.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#89. 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.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#93. A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but the deadline is always there.
A.A. Patawaran
#94. Dreams don't have deadlines. Believe in yourself.
LL Cool J
#95. Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.
C.P. Cavafy
#96. Not just Dream ......have a specific deadline tagged to it ............A dream with a clear deadline is a Goal.
Monish Bhalla
#97. I hate to question
your dedication to the recruiting process, but it sounds
more like you ran up against a deadline and grabbed
the first sucker with the balls to call you out.
Rachel Vincent
#98. 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
#99. Squandering time is a luxury of profligate youth, when the years are to us as dollars are to billionaires. Doing the same thing in middle age just makes you nervous, not with vague puritan guilt but the more urgent worry that you're running out of time, a deadline you can feel in your cells.
Tim Kreider
#100. 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.
Tena Desae
