Quotes About Completion

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Nothing is over until God says it is.

The essential requirement: Any extrinsic reward should be unexpected and offered only after the task is complete.

the Zeigarnik effect, our tendency to remember unfinished tasks better than finished ones.2

Okay" (final words from flight 383)

Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.

I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

People that complete other people's vision are understated.

People don't finish, Rose. People stop. To finish is to say okay, now it's right, never I'm going to change it. To stop is to say okay, it's not perfect, but I have to go to something else.

L'amour n'a-t-il pas en soi-même sa fin ?

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

You should make your life count right up to the last minute.

Impatience is only another form of resistance. It is resistance to learning and to changing. When we demand that it be done right now, completed at once, then we don't give ourselves time to learn the lesson involved with the problem we have created.

Do you know why we're all happy here, monsieur? Because it's the last house on the road.

Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

Thinking nothing done while anything remained to be done.

I suppose I also have a fondness for Cities because it was my first published novel - writing it got me over what had, up until that time, seemed like an insurmountable hurdle - the writing and completion of a novel. Oh, I'd begun several novels over the years, but never had the staying power or the faith in my own work to finish one.

It's no small feat, finishing a journey, I tell her. But no one ever mentions that once you get there, you will have to turn around and head all the way home.

You can always edit something bad. You can't edit something blank.

There's this weird part about having kids—you know when your family is finished, and when it's not.

When we fear God, we will… • Obey Him instantly • Obey Him even if it doesn't make sense • Obey Him even if it hurts • Obey Him even if we don't see the benefit • Obey Him to completion

My dad drilled into us kids that if we started something, we would have to finish it. He used to say, "When you made the choice to start, you made the choice to finish. It's not two choices; it's one.

Reward only finished work: It's good to praise effort, but you should never reward it. Give