Deadline Quotes - page 3

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming. (Jason Isbell)
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive. View quote
Jill Abramson
In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted. View quote
Joe Shuster
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. View quote
Joe Shuster
Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline. View quote
Julius Schwartz
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. View quote
Laurie Notaro
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back. View quote
Sloane Crosley
I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would. View quote
Thomas Mars
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. View quote
Wayne White
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. View quote
Nick Turse
In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration. (Richard Holbrooke)
Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things. View quote
Neil Gaiman
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. View quote
Questlove
I hear so many complaints to the effect that Negroes do not take advantage of the educational opportunities offered them. Well, one of the reasons why more of my race do not go in for higher education is that as soon as one of us gets his head above the crowd there are millions of feet ready to crush it back again to that dead level of commonplace thus creating a racial deadline of culture in our Republic. For how am I to compete with other American artists if I am not to be given the same opportunity? View quote
Augusta Savage
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. View quote
Nolan Bushnell
I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good. View quote
Timothy Dalton
I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!' View quote
Christopher Hitchens
What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what the American people are expecting. View quote
Eric Cantor
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. View quote
Harvey Mackay
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. View quote
Harvey Mackay
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window. (Alan Cox)
Without a deadline, the motivation to do a task is small to nonexistent. View quote
Robert W. Bly
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. View quote
Sam Donaldson
On Monday, the Chronicle ran a long piece on Herb Caen, by Herb Caen. My first reaction was, "My God, he's dead." After all, the last Caen piece to run that long and that far away from the Macy's ad was his exquisite obituary for Benny Goodman - social and personal history that read like being gathered around the radio. And it would make sense to assign Caen to his own obituary, as he is the reigning master of the art and known to meet his deadline no matter what the obstacle. These are inappropriately morbid thoughts on the occasion of Caen's 50th anniversary of writing daily columns. It's a joyous occasion because it means this unnervingly youthful 70-year-old genius has only about 50 more years of columns to do before the Chronicle is on its feet again. Then, maybe, they'll give him a vacation without making him write about it. I hope the Royal holds up. View quote
Herb Caen
As the FEC fundraising deadline for 2019 approaches, I am once again asking for your financial support. View quote
Bernie Sanders