Deadline Quotes - Page 2

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

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

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

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

You've got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death.

Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.

There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

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

For truth there is no deadline.

To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

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

Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.

We remind ourselves that it's a hobby [The Esemblist]; nobody is setting these deadlines for us, except us.

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved.

Goals are just dreams with deadlines.

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

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive when there's less panic.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

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

Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.