Deadline Stress Quotes

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.

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.

I don't plan anything out, and I don't write in chronological order. The emotional tenor is what guides me, but a lot of it is feeling my way through the dark. That's okay if you have unlimited time to work and stumble upon things in a delightful way, but under a deadline, it can be really stressful.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.

I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.

I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time two days before it's due.

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.'

Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.

I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

Time can be an enemy or a friend.

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time

As a studio executive, I took the approach that people are competent until proven otherwise. But when you make a movie, because there is so little time to fix things when they break, you have to almost come to it with the mindset that everyone is incompetent until proven otherwise.

I used to stress out if I wasn't attaining my goals by their due date, but not anymore.

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

Now I know that I should take better care of myself when I'm under an intense deadline, or else my body is gonna act in certain ways that are not good.

All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.