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
Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never. — Elvis Presley
Short Deadline Quotes
A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline. — Rheta Grimsley Johnson
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. — Harvey Mackay
Dreams don't have deadlines. Believe in yourself. — LL Cool J
Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation. — Dhirubhai Ambani
Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing. — Peter Gabriel
Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action. — Andy Gilbert
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. — Emile Zola
The only deadline is the one I give myself. — Mark Thomas
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things. — Val Kilmer
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Meeting The Deadline Quotes
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
My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are always struggling to meet some future or past deadline, methodological abstraction is a wise long term investment. — Robert W. Floyd
The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution. — Matt Lauer
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
Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time. — Henry Rollins
The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines. — Yoko Ono
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 Chef,' 'Housewives,' and all the other shows we have in development, racing to meet a deadline. So I pretty much bring my laptop everywhere. — Andy Cohen
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
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
All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn't anticipate but which can make the difference between meeting a deadline and going into research mode for a year, etc. — Erik Naggum
Adding a deadline and incorporating one or multiple forms of urgency will get more people to take action than would otherwise. — Alex Hormozi
It's a secret, but when I decided to apply to 'Shonen Magazine,' it was already past the deadline, so I had no choice but to go with 'Shonen Jump.' — Akira Toriyama
God is on your side. We already at the finish line. Anything you put your mind to, anything you want to accomplish ,you put your faith in God's hands you can do it. — Puff Daddy
The interesting thing about overthinking and procrastination is sometimes they can actually evolve into innovation and creativity in the short term. Letting an idea grow in your mind in the short term with a deadline and a plan can actually lead to innovation and creativity. — Jay Shetty
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
Whether we notice it or not, we spend our days negotiating for something: for our spouse to do more housework, a child to eat just three more bites or go to bed on time, an extended deadline on a project, a salary increase, a better rate on a vacation package. — Chris Voss
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. — Frank Zappa
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
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
There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease. — Marc Benioff
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
Sometimes you just get in there and force yourself to work, and maybe something good will come out, ya know? Deadlines and things make you creative. Opportunity and telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want-that just kills creativity. — Jack White
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
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 am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation. — Harry Shearer
In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. — Julian Castro
The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline. — Hayao Miyazaki
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.' — Tom Robbins
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
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
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one. — Benicio Del Toro
When life tends to get too complex, too fast, too cluttered, too deadline oriented, or too type A for you, stop and remember your own spirit. You're headed for inspiration, a simple, peaceful place where you're in harmony with the perfect timing of all creation. — Wayne Dyer
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
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
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