Quotes About Unfinished

Ho compreso che ben pochi realizzano se stessi prima di morire: e ho giudicato con maggiore pietà le loro opere interrotte.

The Buddhist word sunyata, or emptiness, has as its original, etymological meaning "a pregnant void, the hollow of a pregnant womb." When a therapist is able to create such a fertile condition, through the use of her own silence, the patient cannot help but come in contact with that which is still unfinished and with which he is still identified, albeit unawares.

The potential biographies of those who die young possess the mystic dignity of a headless statue, the poetry of enigmatic passages in an unfinished or mutilated manuscript, unburdened with contrived or banal endings.

Home you'll come, in tears, cut off from the sight of it all, the brilliant rites unfinished.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

The fact that you are still alive is an obvious proof that God still has some things to accomplish in you or your life. I mean, you are an unfinished mission or project in God's hands. Oh! yes, God is not yet through with you, until he is through with you. Thus, be hopeful for life and never hopeless. -Emeasoba George

You are a work in progress in God's hands and so do I. Sooner or later he will be done with you/me and then you/I will emerge a finished product. But, until he is done with you/me, you/I will remain an unfinished product.

You're a work in progress in God's hands and so I'm. Sooner or later he will be done with you/me and then, you/I will emerge a finish product. But, until he's done with you/me. You/I will remain an unfinished product.

Man himself is not a finished creation; if he were, God would not Be.

She wasn't supposed—to die until—we talked.

No, being too busy isn't your reason for keeping clutter in your life. Uncomfortable though it may be to have so much unfinished work surrounding you, you keep those magazines and broken antiques because all that potential feels nice. Now take one more step in your thinking and what you'll find is a tiny but powerful fear of commitment.

Then you're leaving the story unfinished, Mr. Author! Not more unfinished then a story ought to be, I hope. If you ever knew a story finished, all I can say is, I never did. Somehow, stories won't finish. I think I know why, but I won't say that either, now.

Death will reveal what you otherwise would have finished. Also what you never would have finished. I found the notes for a book a woman had been working on for thirty years: sixteen pages.

Libby stood at the bar like something that had been hastily added at the end of a painting that hasn't quite dried yet.

...even saying good-bye isn't enough. There's always one more thing you should have had the time to say, or do, or ask. There's always going to be that one missing piece.

As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished.

I've lived a life of unfinished things.

Zeigarnik. She was a Russian psychologist who discovered that people develop tension for unfinished business. They named it after her. The Zeigarnik effect. Like most overachievers I've got a big one.

took in the unfinished paintings. Strong and colorful, filled with promise and an inner logic that helps lift them above ordinary abstractions, so said the New York Times four years ago, the time of my last exhibition. So what had happened to all that promise?

I absolutely don't regret going to Nascar and I'm not finished with it. I intend to be back one day.

There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.

One of the few remarks of age which I noticed in my aunt was her readiness to abandon one anecdote while it was yet unfinished for another.

I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life.

Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.