deadlines QUOTES

1 " At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now before his eyes and turned into something trivial and often disgusting.
And the further he was from childhood, the nearer he got to the present day, the more trivial and dubious his pleasures appeared. It started with law school. That had retained a little something that was really good: there was fun, there was friendship, there was hope. But in the last years the good times had become more exceptional. Then, at the beginning of his service with the governor, some good times came again: memories of making love to a woman. Then it became all confused, and the good times were not so many. After that there were fewer still; the further he went the fewer there were.
Marriage. . .an accident and such a disappointment, and his wife's bad breath, and all that sensuality and hypocrisy! And the deadlines of his working life, and those money worries, going on for a year, two years, ten, twenty - always the same old story. And the longer it went on the deadlier it became.
'It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion I was heading uphill, but in equal measure life was slipping away from me...And now it's all over. Nothing left but to die! "

― Leo Tolstoy , The Death of Ivan Ilych

2 " Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures. "

3 " Goals are dreams with deadlines. "

― Diana Scharf

4 " Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goals. "

― Mark Batterson , All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

5 " God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves. "

― A.W. Tozer , The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

6 " Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. "

― Frank Zappa , The Real Frank Zappa Book

7 " Capable psychonauts who think about thinking, about states of mind, about set and setting, can get things done not because they have more willpower or drive, but because they know productivity is a game played against a childish primal human predilection for pleasure and novelty that can never be excised from the soul. Your effort is better spent outsmarting yourself than making empty promises through plugging dates into a calendar or setting deadlines for push-ups. "

― David McRaney , You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself

8 " The vast majority of the populace would never think of setting themselves any deadlines for the achievement of their dreams. They may have a vague notion they will get older and that one day they will probably die, but it all seems a long way away, and tomorrow will bring its own share of problems and pressing issues to fill their time. "

9 " How could any boy know that freedom is lost the moment you become a man. Things start to count. To press in. Constricting slowly, inevitably, creating a cage of inconveniences and duties and deadlines and failed plans and lost friends. "

― Pierce Brown , Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)

10 " For a business to strengthen its position on the market, its managers should become skillful at helping their subordinates to set and achieve specific and measurable goals with realistic deadlines and clear expectations. Managers should also mentor employees through challenges, helping them grow and develop new skills. "

― Anna Szabo , Turn Your Dreams And Wants Into Achievable SMART Goals!

11 " A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block. "

― Ryan Lilly

12 " Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and write, which is what it takes to do this. "

― Alistair Cross

13 " If your goal is to deliver a product that meets a known and unchanging specification, then try a repeatable process. However, if your goal is to deliver a valuable product to a customer within some targeted boundaries, when change and deadlines are significant factors, then reliable Agile processes work better. "

14 " Schedule a sit-down with your direct boss and establish what she expects you to be focusing on in the first days and weeks of the job. Take written notes and determine—this is especially important—what your deadlines are. … Then be sure to request feedback about how you’re doing. A few weeks after you’ve started, schedule another meeting with your boss. Don’t say, “Am I doing okay?” Say, “I’m really enjoying my job. Are there any suggestions you’d offer? "

― Kate White , I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know

15 " Self-imposed insanely impossible deadlines often help. "

16 " Life goes on, and deadlines arrive,
even when it seems the world should stop
out of respect for a shattered self-esteem. "

― , Formerly Shark Girl (Shark Girl, #2)

17 " Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seem the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem. "

18 " When your boss assigns you a project, take good notes and ask questions regarding anything you’re not sure about. … The key question to ask: “What are the results you’re looking for?” Be clear, too, about deadlines and who needs to be looped in on the project. "

― Kate White , I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know

19 " Four healthy ways to spur people to keep the agreements they make:1. Specificity Boosts Clarity and AccountabilityThe more concrete the agreement, the more clear the obligation and the more difficult it is for someone to misunderstand. " Please get right on that" does not create as much clarity nor accountability as, " Please finalize your choice of vendors by 5 p.m. tomorrow." 2. Peer Accountability Pins Us TogetherAlthough this did not work on the non-profit committee, when peers meet face-to-face or via group video and make specific agreements with each other and they all have a stake in the outcome there's a higher probability of securing accountability.3. Written Proof So We Don't GoofTo reinforce the power of mutual accountability, have a designated meeting recorder (or take turns with the role) so one participant is responsible for recording action items, deadlines and who's responsible for each item. The recorder sends that list to all participants' computers before they leave the meeting.4. Upfront Rules of Engagement Are Our GuardrailsA company, team, or committee is more likely to spur mutual accountability when it adopts a few, specific agreements about how people will operate together, from punctuality to pithiness in writing or conversing. "