Deadlines Quotes
14 quotes
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
"Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face."
"A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar."
"Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goals."
Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
"Wasted strokes, like missed deadlines, are preventable and costly."
"Prof. Gerd Gleixner said “ Lailah recommend that you work every morning on the dissertation in order to meet the deadline. There are only 4 weeks ."
"Deadlines give us the sense that we are really on our way and that we will achieve the goal – soon!"
"At times, it is better to "just do it" than to "do it right". One reason new year resolutions don't work is because we expect too much from ourselves. Rush, meet your deadlines, you can always continue from where you stopped next year."
"A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block."
"If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: ‘What’s great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!’ It will be about how the whole thing stands up."
"Deadlines and daily dilemmas are stressful focus on solutions problems concerns don't sweat make best out of the moment."
"...a deadline should not prevent you from writing, but writing will help prevent you from missing your deadline. Then write a word. Then remind yourself of that again. And then write another and hey, look at you! You’re spitting in that deadline’s eye."
"As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king."
"Historically, the 'deadline' was the line around a prison beyond which prisoners were eligible for shooting. In keeping with shifts in the exercise of control, what one was delineated spatially over life is now enforced temporarily over labor."