Quotes About Completion

Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end.

I feel like if you rush anything, it's never complete and it's never, never what you want it to be.

I'm done with the Carole Baskin saga.

It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full.

It is extremely satisfying when you finish a script, but the process of it can be just nerve-wracking.

I go through all of my old notebooks, and I put an X on every page when everything has been entered into the computer, and sometimes that takes 15 years. But eventually the notebooks are full of X's, and they're no good to me anymore.

There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish that book. And that's when I get to page 100. I have to see it out.

I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.

That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.

The Seekers have done most things that you'd want to do and when we broke up in the '60s it was partly because we sort of felt we'd done all the things that you could do. There was nothing new.

It's perhaps significant that God declares His completed Creation "very good" and that Adam is an afterthought, his goodness unspecified.

My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

I have just finished "All the Colors of Darkness" 090209

In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

Any project can be estimated accurately (once it's completed).

You never finish a book. You only abandon it.

I always wondered how it would feel when it was over,' said Malik eventually. 'Turns out it doesn't feel like anything, much.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of our images and our words. Denying oneself this work of completion in the name of some hypothetical fidelity to the work is bound to fail: we can indeed reject filling these gaps in a conscious way, but we cannot prevent our unconscious from finishing the work, according to its priorities and those of the era in which it was written.

Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality.

As we search for change and seek for our voices to be heard, completing the census will help get us the resources we need.

I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book.