Deadline Quotes - Page 4

• We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Rushing, Trying, Appointments

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• Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Goal, Focus, House

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 04, 2014

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• Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, and a little voice in the back of my mind reminding me that, "If you don't write, you don't eat." We all want to be respected and appreciated, but when you get a big honor like winning the Pulitzer, people start to look for your work in a new way with higher expectations. Today, the best thing about having won is when I get a nasty comment from some internet troll I can remind myself of the Pulitzer and say, "Well, somebody appreciates me".

  Clarence Page

  Writing, Winning, Expectations

  "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (Rtsc): Veteran Journalist Clarence Page Continues To Make ‘front Page’ News!". Interview With Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 12, 2015.

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• There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Artist, Needs, Tools

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.

  Arianna Huffington

  Real, Use, Today

  Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.133, Harmony

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• 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.

  C. J. Box

  Sports, Real, Writing

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• SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Commitment, Successful, Thinking

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Nov 17, 2014

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Years

  "George RR Martin: '"Selfies"! If I could burn out every camera phone, I'd do it'". Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2014.

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• Commitment to each other is critical. Let's make our deadlines and due dates mean something. For changes to occur, we have to embrace them over and over. Take it step by step -- but keep moving forward -- and a year from now, we'll find we've moved from here to there.

  Rhonda Abrams

  Moving, Mean, Commitment

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• I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Needs, Jazz

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• Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

  Duke Ellington

  Baby, Innovation

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• 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

  Decision, Doe, May

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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• I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

  Carrie Fisher

  Editors, Missing, Mets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines.

  David Edelstein

  Father, Locks, Lock Up

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

  William Monahan

  Serious, Fit, Given

  Source: collider.com

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• God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian Inspirational, Relax, Nerves

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.52, Fig

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• It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or newspaper is hacked out on the computer; that's a matter of efficiency. I write longer pieces of prose on a typewriter because the act of retyping it for the computer is a useful tactic for revision. Poems tend to be written longhand.

  Kevin Keck

  Writing, Typewriters, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline. If it's two days, sometimes there are things I see that don't work as well. If I have two weeks, the scripts get kind of flabby and lack the adrenaline that a sense of deadline fills you with.

  David E. Kelley

  Writing, Two, Three

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• Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.

  William Monahan

  Cutting, Color, Pushing

  Source: collider.com

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• Any working cartoonist will tell you this, anybody who's working in a creative field: at some point, it's a job. You have deadlines. I think, for over a year, I refused to make them for publications, because I only wanted to make them when I wanted to make them. But at some point, I was like, "This is crazy, you have an opportunity to be a professional cartoonist.

  David Rees

  Jobs, Crazy, Opportunity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Worry, Becoming

  Source: thesource.com

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• Meeting external deadlines is much harder than meeting internal ones. On the other hand, internal deadlines sometimes don't feel real, and are therefore easy to evade.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Hands, Sometimes

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Long, Schedules

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

  Tony Kushner

  Panic

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• Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

  Rick Riordan

  Real, Humorous, Faces

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