Ayumi Hamasaki Quotes

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

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests.

The National guys will tell you the same thing - I tend to work until the last possible minute.

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

Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.

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

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.

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.

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

I don't prepare very well. I'm always sort of wrapped up in what I'm supposed to be doing in the moment, and then I suddenly appear someplace, and I'm really not prepared.

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

I'm a precrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.

I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I write a column is really good for me - the column has to be done, and there's no getting around it.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

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

My schedule is always tight. But I like to have the pressure of having to finish doing something; it gives me an added edge.

I'm always late for things and always feel like I'm rushing.

Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

You may delay, but time will not.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.