Quotes About Completion

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

At the end of the day the fence were still not complete but my family had witnessed my new strength and they I could be the man

Epwo m-baa pokin in-gitin'got (Everything has an end.)

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.

I'm working on another Lyra book right now – it's called The Book of Dust. "It's going very well and it will be finished when I write the words 'The End'.

L'umano desiderio di un principio, una parte di mezzo e una fine - e una fine adeguata, come grandezza, a quel principio e a quella parte di mezzo - si realizzava così completamente soltanto nella materia insegnata da Coleman all'Athena College. Ma al di fuori della tragedia classica del quinto secolo a.C. aspettarsi un compimento, per non dire una giusta e perfetta conclusione, significa, per un adulto, cullarsi in una stolta illusione.

Now I just want it to end. I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending.

Uno no termina un poema, simplemente lo abandona.

We were very crowded today and I got a kick out of completing the transaction, handing the customer a receipt, and saying, "Your photos will be mailed on August tenth.

You'll be talking to him and he'll walk away—not angry but just sort of finished with you.

Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

Life is a gift that must be given back and joy should arise from its possession. It's too damn short and that's a fact. Hard to accept this earthly procession to final darkness is a journey done, circle completed, work of art sublime, a sweet melodic rhyme. A battle won.

when you're writing it's such an obsessive thing, and then when you're done it's like pushing something out of your body (...)

At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.

Anytime you actually finish a film, I think it's a success. And to have that film seen and liked by audiences is the ultimate.

Woe to the man, as to the woman, who has left no desire unsatisfied! All is over then.

Between the conception of the idea of this special relativity theory and the completion of the corresponding publication, there elapsed five or six weeks. But it would be hardly correct to consider this as a birth date, because earlier the arguments and building blocks were being prepared over a period of years, although without bringing about the fundamental decision.

The idea, so common in the ancient writers, is not all a poetic conceit, that the soul of a man is only a fragment of a larger whole, and goes out in search of other souls in which it will find its true completion. We walk among worlds unrealized, until we have learned the secret of love. We know this, and in our sincerest moments admit this, even though we are seeking to fill up our lives with other ambitions and other hopes.

Ik heb niets meer te vragen aan de goden, mijn wensen zijn vervuld, het is goed. Meer dan goed. Het is genoeg.

The soul is never wholly assembled, except in delight.

The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things.

Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.

The two movers did not require tea – they seemed to work on a supply of fizzy drinks and vaping. Besides which, they were almost done. She heard