Deadline Quotes - Page 5

• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

  Karl Kraus

  Time, Writing, Journalist

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate.

  Walt Disney

  Ifs

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

  Alberto Manguel

  Lasts, Lists, Facts

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• I've been deadline-driven for my whole grown-up life, and that hasn't gone away. It is nice to be able to reflect about the big picture, about what kind of stories you want to tell, and how to take advantage of success.

  Matt Groening

  Nice, Gone Away, Stories

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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• Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

  Jan Karon

  Toxic, Publishing

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• Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

  Peter Gabriel

  Finishing, Way

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• The one thing I'd thought of is that we spend most of our lives in survival time. There's a sense of hanging off the ledge, trying to tread water, trying to keep ahead of the deadlines or the business of the city.

  Kyo Maclear

  Water, Survival, Trying

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  David Benioff

  People, Waiting, Suggestions

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• The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

  Victor LaValle

  Writing, Poverty

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• Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Ideas, People, Goal

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• Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Mind, Dogma, Should

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever.

  Jim Shaw

  Forever, Stuff, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.

  Al Leiter

  People, How You Feel, Want

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• I feel like I'm guiding the teams and we're all making this together. It feels more free-spirited and less structured, but we have our deadlines and that's important. We have an editorial team, but we're having fun. I get to guide them.

  Gerard Way

  Fun, Team, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Drama, Taken, Roots

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• God is on your side. We already at the finish line. Anything you put your mind to, anything you want to accomplish ,you put your faith in God's hands you can do it.

  Puff Daddy

  Hands, Your Side, Mind

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• But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

  Dan Stevens

  Writing, Ideas, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?

  Judith Weir

  Finishing, Wonder, Ifs

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• The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

  Judith Weir

  Good Enough, Danger, Accepting

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• Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.

  John Perry

  Jobs, Real, Life And Death

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.

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• At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them.

  John McNally

  Writing, Giving, Decision

  John McNally (2010). “The Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist”, p.75, University of Iowa Press

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• With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Television, Wells

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Couple, Taken, Thinking

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• I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.

  Jenny Lewis

  Three, Littles, Week

  Source: www.avclub.com

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