Deadlines Quotes

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should have enough…”
Leo shrugged. “How do you feel about barely enough?”
Hazel put her face in her hands for a count of three. “Sounds about typical for us.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Goals are dreams with deadlines.”
― Diana Scharf

“Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.”
― Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

“I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.”
― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“Deadlines are a great antidote to insecurity.”
― Tina Brown, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

“When negative thoughts about anything – be it a person, an unhealthy habit, a circumstance or a work deadline – surround our existence, we tend to feel helpless, for our energies are draining faster than we had anticipated.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Respect your deadline like it’s a field marshal.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“Wasted strokes, like missed deadlines, are preventable and costly.”
― Lorii Myers, Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace

“Without a deadline, your work is never over. The power of deadlines leads your work to completion. What is done poorly is better than what is 20% done perfectly assuming person operates on a progress-driven mindset. Then you can improve to make things less bad faster.”
― Thomas Vato

“I could not deny that in this attractive city, without compelling assignments or any deadlines to reach for, all painful catalysts for growth had been eliminated, erased from my existence like the rogue lines in a sketch—the unexpected marks that make the picture’s expression passionate and real, gone now. Living here, I was growing complacent again, seduced by a stagnant state of mind I hated to indulge—”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“Without deadlines, nothing get done.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Assignments without deadlines are far better at producing guilt than stimulating action.”
― Kerry Patterson, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

“You're just going to have to accept that people are *never* ready in times like these. Page-turners and bolt-tighteners always demand more time than external forces permit. That's your job. My job is to remind you the real world and the people cutting our checks don't care. So get us as ready as you can in a week, and maybe find yourself a little helping of faith.”
― Patrick S. Tomlinson, Gate Crashers

“Writing a second book is not like writing the first. I don't mean that every book is different, though of course there's an element of that. The crucial difference is that when you write your first book, you don't have a publisher, which means you don't have a deadline. Deadlines-well. Deadlines put a whole new spin on this writing lark.”
― Lexie Elliott, The Missing Years

“Ants owe their superiority to their terrestrial life. This assertion may seem paradoxical, but consider the exceptional advantages afforded by a terrestrial medium to the development of their intellectual faculties, compared with an aerial medium! In the air there are the long flights without obstacles, the vertiginous journeys far from real bodies, the instability,
the wandering about, the endless forget fulness of things and oneself. On the earth, on the contrary, there is not a movement that is not a contact and does not yield precise information, not a journey that fails to leave some reminiscence ; and as these journeys are determinate, it is inevitable that a portion of the ground incessantly traversed should be registered, together with its resources and its dangers, in the animal's imagination. Thus here results a closer and much more direct communication with the external world.”
― Alfred Espinas, Des Sociétés Animales (2e Éd.) (Éd.1878) (Sciences Sociales)

“...deadlines get jobs done :)”
― Cahit Kargi

“Sometimes ending a week is tough. You remember the failings of yesterdays then anticipate the frustrations of today and you get sour!
You know, it helps to start Fridays with a cup of "GO-juice"
(G▪︎ GOD & O▪︎Optimism)

I'm hoping you drink deep today...
Jn 7:37-38
Good Morning.”
― Manuela George-Izunwa

“Inspiration has no deadlines.”
― Alan Safier

“Deadlines produce haste and the feeling of a great weight pressing down on my neck, and both of these get in the way of writing. 19, How to Write Like Chekhov”
― Chekhov Anton Pavlovich 1860-1904

“Its time to offer yourself a lifetime instead more deadlines.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.

“Josh: There's no rush to figure it out.
Ashley: Do you back-burner everything in your life until it's convenient? .... You seem to me to epitomize the concept of putting everything off until tomorrow.
Josh: And you never put anything off. Maybe I'm just trying to lead you to a middle ground. The truth is, we tend to make our own chaos. Sure, the real world has deadlines, and they're important. But we turn everything into a "must do" crisis. Not everything needs to be done immediately. We can take the pressure off ourselves. We can choose not to participate in the rat race. All it takes is recognizing our own limits, prioritizing, and learning to say no.
It was just as he'd try to tell her: answers came as soon as a person stopped trying to force them.”
― Sherryl Woods (author)

“Josh: There's no rush to figure it out.
Ashley: Do you back-burner everything in your life until it's convenient? .... You seem to me to epitomize the concept of putting everything off until tomorrow.
Josh: And you never put anything off. Maybe I'm just trying to lead you to a middle ground. The truth is, we tend to make our own chaos. Sure, the real world has deadlines, and they're important. But we turn everything into a "must do" crisis. Not everything needs to be done immediately. We can take the pressure off ourselves. We can choose not to participate in the rat race. All it takes is recognizing our own limits, prioritizing, and learning to say no.
It was just as he'd try to tell her: answers came as soon as a person stopped trying to force them.
(From The Laws of Attraction)”
― Sherryl Woods (author), The Laws of Attraction

“Deadlines dictates what must be done in the moment.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Do not default on your own ultimatum.”
― Eduvie Donald

“It's not our schedule that prevents us from timely completion of tasks, it's our failure to categorize the task based on its importance. Every task becomes less or more important if we figure out why.”
― Shahanshah Hafeez

“Let’s take a closer look at the value of the exhibitor services manual. Specifically, the advance pricing deadline. Missing it can cost you big. Knowing your show’s advance order deadline (and sticking to it) can save you up to 40% on exhibitor expenses.”
― Lisa Masiello, Trade Show 411: The Essential Guide to Exhibiting Like a Pro

“Anyhow, tired to the point of collapse was a default state. The expectation was simply that, through some combination of strong coffee and Lembas Bread, one pushed through until all deadlines were met and one could collapse into an indefinite coma without consequence. Alice had spent most of graduate school in this state, and it was not so bad.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis