alarm

appointment

alarm, appointment, beacon, clue, deadline, headline, label, mystery, notification, question, reminder, sign, signal, symptom, warning

is basically a bomb you place to blow up your dreams.

is a waste of time because being early wastes yours and being late wastes the other person's.

Appointments are a waste of time because being early wastes yours and being late wastes the other person's.

, by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

is essential to fulfilling goals --- a goal without a deadline is just a dream.

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

is the terrible anvil on which one forges one's style.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. Emile Zol

is best loved for the wooshing noise it makes as it goes by.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.' Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

is motivating --- a deadline has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind.