John Crowley Quotes

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them.

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.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

I'm never in control of my time during the workday.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.

Sometimes it feels like there aren't enough hours in a day to get everything done.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion

You know Washington. If the deadline is midnight, they'll start working on it at 11:30.

Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.

In France, we have a mania for meetings that start very early and finish very late. It wastes time and creates rigidity in schedules. Everyone knows I hate long meetings.

I wish there were 48 hours in a day and 14 days in a week.

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.

Television is all about deadlines.

Most film teams usually come with a tight deadline, which doesn't leave us much time to compose.

Weekly, monthly, or whatever, I'm just not good with being told I have to finish up according to a set schedule.

It is impossible to play the best of nines and expect the matches to finish on time.

There are never enough minutes in the day for what I want to do.

It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.

I try not to schedule too many meetings. That's one of the things I learned in corporate America - that you can spend your days having meetings and never actually have time to work.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.