Dan Webster 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.

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

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

I always feel like I'm running an hour and a half late.

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

Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.

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

Although a science fair can seem like a big "pain" it can help you understand important scientific principles, such as Newton's First Law of Inertia, which states: "A body at rest will remain at rest until 8:45 p.m. the night before the science fair project is due, at which point the body will come rushing to the body's parents, who are already in their pajamas, and shout, 'I JUST REMEMBERED THE SCIENCE FAIR IS TOMORROW AND WE GOTTA GO TO THE STORE RIGHT NOW!'"

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.

I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.

I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

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.

Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of possibly still managing whatever it is I'm supposed to do. I think, secretly, I might even get a buzz out of it. Maybe I crave the adrenalin like some sort of crazy gambler high on risking everything on the turn of a card.

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.

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.

No movie has ever got enough time. It doesn't matter how much money you've got, and it doesn't matter how much money you've not got. You never finish on time. You're always up against it and you're always working up until the end.

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

I am always in a rush because time is slipping away, and I am chasing it, chasing it.

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.

I understand the law of sowing and reaping. It is a spiritual law that has tremendous physical implications. Every time that we delay or frustrate what we can do today, leaving it till tomorrow, we hold back the future. We, too, must reap what we have sown by experiencing delays.

There's a rumour that we actually make all our albums in the last six months before they're released and the rest of it is procrastination.

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

My biggest pet peeve is rushing.