In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
[Electronic newspapers will bring] plenty of ulcers for journalists because they'll have new deadlines every 60 seconds. It'll be a race to… — Russ Wilcox Copy Share Image
When you first quit your regular job and you become a full-time writer, you are paralyzed with free time. You have so… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them. — Al Leiter Copy Share Image
The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough. — Judith Weir Copy Share Image
“New orders: Make sure everybody who doesn't want to live here is aboard in five minutes. We are leaving. -Captain Kevyn Andreyasn” — Howard Tayler Copy Share Image
We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson Copy Share Image
I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist]. — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Meeting external deadlines is much harder than meeting internal ones. On the other hand, internal deadlines sometimes don't feel real, and are… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call 'real money,' I'd… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Every deadline was a crisis … No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large. — Alyce Cornyn-Selby Copy Share Image
The hard part on the subway is that you have, let's say, eight hours, but you have to hit these deadlines. From… — Jaume Collet-Serra Copy Share Image
I've never sat down to quantify how many hours I actually spend on the strip. I use the deadlines to estimate my… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that's what… — Eric Cantor Copy Share Image