Deadline Driven Quotes

For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

I work well under pressure.

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

My training as a journalist was invaluable: when I worked on 'The Daily Express,' the editor would often ask for 1000 words within a couple of hours. I could not say I was not inspired. I had to get on with it.

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'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll just sit down and I'll write it. It always seems to come to me. But I'm better doing a rushed job because if it isn't something that's due quickly, I won't work on it until it becomes almost an emergency and then I'll do it.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if there isn't a great version one.

Everything you do needs to be a short fuse ... not [as] an R&D problem for the sake of doing R&D ... we are looking to you for solutions ... we want them fast.

Just ask my boss - any time a major story breaks, I'm banging on his door to send me.

We like to wait to a point where we have to get in there and write a record because we're just so built up.

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

Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.

I love the energy and urgency of working in news.

I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.