Deadline Quote by Khushwant Singh Download Open image “I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].” — Khushwant Singh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deadline Journalist Years
I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
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… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with belief in… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late. — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming. — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
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… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
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… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“There are many ways of attaining godhood, say teachers of religion. Acharya Rajneesh disagrees and says there is only one way, and sexual intercourse is the first step towards it. He maintains that religion as it is practised, is false, and its propagators are agents of Satan. They have degraded love and taught us the negation of life. The philosophy… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share
I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“I am back in my beloved city. The scene of desolation fills my eyes with tears. At every step my distress and agitation increases.… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“One Sikh may argue with one Sikh. One Sikh must never argue with two Sikhs–certainly not after dark.” — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a bad student… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“poverty which had celebrated a hundred thousand silver and golden jubilees.” — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“He told us of an incident from the life of the Prophet Musa. Musa heard a poor shepherd praying: ‘Where art Thou that I… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time. — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
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… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window. — Alan Cox Copy Share Image
Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having… — John Perry Copy Share Image
I think setting goals is critical; having deadlines for ourselves- how much by when? Too many people have these big dreams where they want to have a big house on the ocean. But until we say what ocean, how big, what day, our conscience doesn't know what to do with that information. A positive expectancy, a positive attitude, a belief… — Jack Canfield Copy Share
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things. — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Most lawsuits against the EPA historically have come either because of the agency's lack of regard for a statute or because the EPA failed… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said I'd miss… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I haven't fully moved over to the iPad. At any given time, I have about four DVDs in my pocket. I'm constantly screening 'Top… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
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