Dave Barry Quotes

I like to believe I perform better under pressure and at the last minute.

I always almost miss my flight. My routine is to constantly, no matter how bad or good the traffic is, to almost miss my flight.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

We Brazilians, happily or unhappily, leave a lot to the last minute.

It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute.

When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.

My husband Charlie says I get ready five minutes before I go out the door. I am one of those people who can't do anything unless it's imminent - that's how I roll.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

The longer we delay, the more we will pay.

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.

Every deadline was a crisis … No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads into the pineal gland … On the other hand, it might easily be something as simple and basically perverse as whatever instinct it is that causes a jackrabbit to wait until the last possible second to dart across the road in front of a speeding car.

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

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

There is always time for another last minute

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.