Ayumi Hamasaki Quotes

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

Better start rushing before the rush begins!

There is always time for another last minute

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

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

Be quick, but don't hurry.

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

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'.

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

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

No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.