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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. -- Nolan Bushnell
A goal is a dream with a deadline. -- Napoleon Hill
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. -- Rita Mae Brown
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box. -- Adam Savage
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. -- Karl Kraus
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan. -- Paul J. Meyer
I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps. -- Carter Burwell
All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can. -- Christian Bale
Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat. -- Newt Gingrich
Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school. -- Chris Crutcher
The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not. -- Chris Crutcher
Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic. -- Jan Karon
I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline. -- Peter Doig
We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline. -- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things. -- Val Kilmer
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -- Douglas Adams
There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines. -- Matthew Lesko
I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving. -- Adam Savage
I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9. -- Jurgen Klinsmann
I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw. -- Ken Buck
In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration. -- Richard Holbrooke
One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late. -- Aaron McGruder
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. -- Frank Zappa
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window. -- Alan Cox
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines -- Bill Walsh
In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline. -- Godfrey Gao
Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred. -- Marilyn vos Savant
The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes - but that's the same with any creative outlet. -- Tess Gerritsen
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. -- Harvey Mackay
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes. -- Joss Whedon
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. -- Joe Shuster
It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again. -- Francis Ford Coppola
There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines. -- Ronald Steel
The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months. -- Barton Gellman
I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum. -- Tim Vine
You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes. -- Joss Whedon
The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy. -- Ernie Pyle
Cooking involves a deadline and hungry people and ingredients that expire in a week. It's stressful. Cooking happens on the stove and on the clock. Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely. -- Regina Brett
Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer. -- Viggo Mortensen
I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline. -- Arthur Godfrey
The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon. -- Margaret Haddix
To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else. Writing is not a job; it is a lifestyle, and it is a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows. You need self-confidence and an iron carapace. -- Virginia Henley
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. -- Joe Shuster
Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock. -- Carl Honore
I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time. -- Garrison Keillor
For truth there is no deadline. -- Heywood Broun
For the truth there is no deadline. -- Heywood Broun
A dream with a deadline is a goal. -- Jay Samit
I don't need time, I need a deadline. -- Duke Ellington
Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing. -- Duke Ellington
You've got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death. -- Leonard Cohen
Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline. -- Julius Schwartz
A goal is simply a dream with a deadline. -- Willie Jolley
The only deadline is the one I give myself. -- Mark Thomas
A goal without a deadline is just a dream. -- Robert Herjavec
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline! -- Duke Ellington
I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline. -- Dan Jenkins
I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline. -- Laurie Notaro
I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline. -- Peter Doig
I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist]. -- Khushwant Singh
Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline. -- Dave Barry
Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action. -- Andy Gilbert
As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring. -- Elizabeth Hoyt
If I'm right in the middle of a deadline, I'm up really early. -- Marilu Henner
The moment you put a deadline on your dream,it becomes a goal. -- Harsha Bhogle
I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic. -- Tony Kushner
Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline. -- Chuck Close
If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever. -- Jim Shaw
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time -- Karl Kraus
A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline. -- Rheta Grimsley Johnson
I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done. -- Michael Chabon
I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming. -- Jason Isbell
I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this. -- Carrie Fisher
A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large. -- Alyce Cornyn-Selby
Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around. -- William Monahan
A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end. -- Brian Tracy
I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would. -- Thomas Mars
The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution. -- Matt Lauer
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. -- Harvey Mackay
On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way. -- Davy Rothbart
President Obama has continually put off the deadline for implementation of Obamacare thanks to hang-ups in the system. -- Ben Shapiro
There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline. -- Adriana Trigiani
I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good. -- Timothy Dalton
Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason. -- Brian Eno
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed. -- Tom DeMarco
With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well. -- Aaron Sorkin
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back. -- Sloane Crosley
The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing. -- Angela Carter
The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions. -- David Allen
I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it. -- Henry Cloud
Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant. -- Dan Povenmire
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
Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments. -- A. J. Liebling
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. -- Wayne White
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. -- Harvey Mackay
Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China. -- David Letterman
I only feel the pressure when we are coming up against a deadline and it's like, actually no we really have to nail this in a week! -- Karen Walker
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. -- Eric Cantor
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW! -- Tom Peters
The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat. -- Joe Henderson
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. -- Neil Gaiman
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. -- Sam Donaldson
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. -- Laurie Notaro
I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline. -- Lucy Hawking
I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege. -- Marchette Chute
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
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
It was a national disgrace to lose the ERA, but of course we will start, and have done so, all over again. ... There is no deadline for equality in our society. -- Marguerite Rawalt
I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn't hurt, either. -- Carmen Agra Deedy
The Republicans are calling the Democrats' plan to have a deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq an 'admission of failure', as opposed to the Republican plan which is 'failure without admission'. -- Jon Stewart
I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either. -- Carmen Agra Deedy
Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. -- Oscar Arias
There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man. -- Yohji Yamamoto
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
Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous. -- Ben Feldman
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
The tighter a deadline is, the more I'm inclined to be perverse and rebellious - I'll start thinking about another, different project, until it becomes the most fantastic thing which I must start immediately. -- Errollyn Wallen

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