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• Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Inspirational, Confidence, Determination

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Book, Reality

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• 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.

  Joe Shuster

  Artist, Problem, Slam

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• I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  June, Coaching, Stressed

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• I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

  Carter Burwell

  Sleep, People, May

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• One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

  Aaron McGruder

  Way, Late

  "Boondocks Speaks: An Interview with Aaron McGruder". Interview with Jennifer A. Carbin, www.alternet.org. November 4, 2001.

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• The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.

  Matt Lauer

  Finals, Constitution

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• 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

  Senior, Years, Waiting

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• 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

  Peace, Work, Ubuntu

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• When you take that to the next level of guiding a group of filmmakers to actually depict him, it's even more challenging. The one that that I think everybody involved believes is that we won't move forward with this until we believe it's right. 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.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Believe, Moving, Responsibility

  Source: collider.com

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• Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.

  Chuck Close

  Inspiration, Everyday

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Deadlines and things make you creative.

  Jack White

  Creative

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• Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Brian Tracy, Azim Jamal (2016). “What You Seek Is Seeking You”, p.139, Jaico Publishing House

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• 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

  Artist, People, Priorities

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• The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.

  David Allen

  Decision, Reason, Force

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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• Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

  Seth Godin

  Names, Lines

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• I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

  Timothy Dalton

  Stress, Writing, Guessing

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• The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

  Tom DeMarco

  Guarantees That, Schedules, Pathology

  Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects”, p.57, Addison-Wesley

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• 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

  Would Be, Done, Literature

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• Sometimes you just get in there and force yourself to work, and maybe something good will come out, ya know? Deadlines and things make you creative. Opportunity and telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want-that just kills creativity.

  Jack White

  Creativity, Opportunity, Color

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• I'm a big believer that dreams don't have deadlines!

  LL Cool J

  Dream, Bigs, Believer

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• 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 doesnt hurt, either.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Hurt, Prayer, Years

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• Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.

  Charles Frazier

  Giving, Phases, Littles

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