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Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them. -- Sarah McLachlan
Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it. -- Harvey Mackay
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
Deadlines and things make you creative. -- Jack White
Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas. -- Ashraf Ghani
Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing. -- Peter Gabriel
Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face. -- Rick Riordan
Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. ThatÂ´t what they are. -- Seth Godin
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
It really does seem that the Democrat's problem isn't that they're calling for timetables - it's that they're calling them 'timetables'. You're up against Bush and the Republicans - you've got to bring some zing. Don't call them timetables - call them 'Patriot Dates', 'Freedom Deadlines'... 'Glory Goals'. -- Jon Stewart
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. -- Emile Zola
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
One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late. -- Aaron McGruder
Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it. -- LL Cool J
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. -- Harry Shearer
The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines. -- Yoko Ono
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
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. -- Frank Zappa
I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up. -- Julian Fellowes
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
The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one. -- John Dyer
We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push to make us have a good time. In both cases, our future self will appreciate the help. -- Virginia Postrel
Singles have goals, responsibilities, deadlines, events, and friends that occupy their time, as well they should. Nonetheless, before any goals are achieved, responsibilities are fulfilled, deadlines are met, events are attended or friends are visited, God's purpose should be accomplished. -- Monica Johnson
House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one. -- The Weeknd
There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation. -- Scott Adams
Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur. -- Harold Prince
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that. -- Serj Tankian
From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there. -- Isabel Allende
Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great. -- Graham Brown
When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project. -- Zaha Hadid
Dreams don't have deadlines... -- LL Cool J
Empower your dreams with deadlines. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Goals are just dreams with deadlines. -- Matthew Good
Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines. -- Brian Tracy
If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate. -- Walt Disney
Dreams don't have deadlines. Believe in yourself. -- LL Cool J
The best writing deadlines are poverty and death. -- Victor LaValle
There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines. -- Brian Tracy
I'm a big believer that dreams don't have deadlines! -- LL Cool J
Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic. -- Jan Karon
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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have. -- Diane Ackerman
I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines. -- David Edelstein
Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation. -- Dhirubhai Ambani
Red lights, green lights, stop and go jive. Headlines, deadlines, jamming your mind. -- Billy Squier
I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended? -- Judith Weir
There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines. -- Matthew Lesko
Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines. -- Neil Gaiman
You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them. -- Al Leiter
GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water. -- Mark Batterson
I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines. -- Robert Barry
I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw. -- Ken Buck
Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable. -- David Eagleman
I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. -- Harry Shearer
We remind ourselves that it's a hobby [The Esemblist]; nobody is setting these deadlines for us, except us. -- Nikka Graff Lanzarone
You're working yourself till late at night, and sleeping crazy with deadlines - you're doing it for a reason. -- Gary Kraftsow
I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that. -- Edmund White
I think if you're inspired, you don't let a little thing like scheduling and deadlines get in your way. -- Phil Collen
I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written. -- Robert M. Gates
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines. -- Tom Robbins
The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough. -- Judith Weir
When I've got massive projects to be getting on with, I find myself open to distractions, particularly when deadlines are involved. -- Max Tundra
Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet. -- Robert Barry
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
Working with Moschino, a real high fashion Italian brand, maybe I'm under tighter deadlines, but sometimes under tight deadlines you do your best work. -- Jeremy Scott
I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it. -- Margaret Atwood
Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines. -- Dev Patel
God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016. -- Justine Larbalestier
Meeting external deadlines is much harder than meeting internal ones. On the other hand, internal deadlines sometimes don't feel real, and are therefore easy to evade. -- James Surowiecki
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. -- Simon Winchester
I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract. -- George R. R. Martin
I spent the year behind on deadlines and everything else. It's only now in December that I feel even slightly caught up. 2016 has to be better. -- Justine Larbalestier
I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it. -- Robert Barry
Before starting a fitness program or diet, know why you're doing it. Have specific goals with deadlines and visualize the end result each night before going to bed. -- Robert Cheeke
We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic. -- Henry Rollins
Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines. -- Marc Benioff
Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life. -- Glynis Nunn
God knows what it's like to be a human. When I talk to him about deadlines or long lines or tough times, he understands. He's been there. He's been here. -- Max Lucado
You get caught up sometimes in the deadlines and the pressures and certain things that you can't really control that you forget that this is supposed to be an enjoyable journey. -- Wilmer Valderrama
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
Plan B is if Hillary [Clinton] is indicted. Then, even if I missed the deadlines for the first couple of primaries, I'll be there to rescue the party. All bets are off. -- Joe Biden
The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines. -- George V. Higgins
I like having deadlines... a film release date or a concert premiere date. It channels one's energy into doing often remarkable work that oceans of extra time would probably not improve upon. -- William P. Perry
As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense. -- Gaspard Ulliel
We are continuously bombarded with information, appeals, deadlines, communications... We are continually being squeezed or projected into the future as our present moments are assaulted and consumed in the fires of endless urgency. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet. -- Fiona McIntosh
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'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book. -- Heidi Klum
Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late. -- Stephen Richards

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