Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action. – Andy Gilbert
Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas. – Ashraf Ghani
Deadlines and things make you creative. – Jack White
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time. – Karl Kraus
Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation. – Dhirubhai Ambani
At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be yours. At some point, you have to give yourself deadlines and stick to them. – John McNally
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
Deadlines just aren’t real to me until I’m staring one in the face. – Rick Riordan
Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline. – Dave Barry
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed. – Tom DeMarco
Empower your dreams with deadlines. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
A goal without a deadline is just a dream. – Robert Herjavec
A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. It has no real beginning or end. – Brian Tracy
Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´s what they are. – Seth Godin
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things. – Val Kilmer
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
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
Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them. – Sarah McLachlan
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all. – Rita Mae Brown
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 are things that we pass through on the way to finishing. – Peter Gabriel
You put deadlines on people you really don’t want, because that’s how you feel about them. – Al Leiter
If we didn’t have deadlines, we’d stagnate. – Walt Disney
There’s a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually – it’s not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making. – David Allen
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
The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal. – Harsha Bhogle
Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic. – Jan Karon
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
As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies. – 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
Goals are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water. – Mark Batterson
Today we often use deadlinesreal and imaginaryto imprison ourselves. – Arianna Huffington
I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving. – Adam Savage
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it’s more a polite suggestion. – David Benioff
Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason. – Brian Eno
Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline. – Chuck Close
