One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep.Mary Pilon
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We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.Andrew J. Bernstein
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All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be.Lawrence O'Donnell
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'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.The Weeknd
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I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.Harry Shearer
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When I was working on my Eagle, I got a late start. I had to meet deadlines, week after week.Josh Hart
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Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it's supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines.Tina Brown
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I'm not organised, and I don't cope well with deadlines, structure and routine. I'm chaotic. Always have been.Jack Monroe
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Deadlines are great for customers because having one means they get a product, not just a promise that someday they'll get a product.Jason Fried
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I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.Julian Fellowes
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Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.Graham Brown
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I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.Judy Blume
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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 sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.Scott Adams
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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
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Overdeliver on promises and deadlines. Show up early, deliver your product early, and deliver more than you promised. Overdeliver now, and in the future, you will be overpaid.Clay Clark
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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 F. Walsh
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.Aaron McGruder
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.Dan Stevens
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I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.Robert M. Gates
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.Frank Zappa
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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 an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.Margaret Haddix
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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
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Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.Dave Eggers
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Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.Harold Prince
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We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.Jason Fried
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Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.David Lindsay-Abaire
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When you write your first book, you're writing in a vacuum; it doesn't matter how much time it takes. And then with the second book, you're on contract, and you have deadlines, and it's a little bit tougher. And also the expectations. You don't want to let your characters down.Sabaa Tahir
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City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business.Rebecca Pidgeon
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I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.Fiona McIntosh
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You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.Al Leiter
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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
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The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.John Dyer
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When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.Zaha Hadid
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Well working by yourself, especially when no one knows about it, is totally liberating because it's very impulse-driven. You work when you want to work. You work when you can work. No deadlines. No conversation. No compromise. No help.Caroline Polachek
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Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.Dev Patel
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Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.Val Kilmer
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I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.Ken Buck
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To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.Simon Winchester
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Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.LL Cool J
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The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.Yoko Ono
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I'm very ordered and efficient, with my life chopped up and diarised into manageable chunks, including time for relaxing. I couldn't do my job, which involves constant deadlines and precise cue-hitting, if I didn't live this way.Cathy Newman
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The more you create, the more ambitious you become with your projects. Short films were a direct result of over 200 web series sketches and vlogs. After you create enough 2-minute videos, you start to wonder what else there is. Deadlines and discipline and quantity with a focus on quality have always been what keeps me going.Anna Akana
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We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.Henry Rollins
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Singles have goals, responsibilities, deadlines, events, and friends that occupy their time, as well they should. Nonetheless, before any goals are achieved, responsibilities are fulfilled, deadlines are met, events are attended or friends are visited, God's purpose should be accomplished.Monica Johnson
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We all need a big cushiony telly show to fall back on. Like the pair of slippers after you unexpectedly went Christmas shopping in your work shoes. Like the cup of tea when your deadlines are making you cry. Like the hug off someone who matters when it's cold and you wanted to look nice, not warm.Sarah Millican
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Political cartoonists get hung up on daily deadlines and the front page. The worst thing you can do is open up the newspaper and ask, 'What's funny about this?'Jeff MacNelly
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It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.Elizabeth Berg
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There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines.Matthew Lesko
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There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints.Emilio Estevez
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