Quotes About Completion

Polly finished her huge narrative during the summer term. The day after she had finished it, she went round with the oddest mixture of feelings, pride at having got it done, sick of the sight of it and glad it was over, and completely lost without it.

Done, he said, and laughed.

I pushed my pile of papers to one side, stroked Shadow and stared into the fire, longing for the comfort of a story where everything had been planned well in advance, where the confusion of the middle was invented only for my enjoyment, and where I could measure how far away the solution was by feeling the thickness of pages still to come. I had no idea how many pages it would take to complete the story of Emmeline and Adeline, nor even whether there would be time to complete it.

the joys of coauthoring a research paper, it is really time to go to bed.

When everybody comes back and the task is accomplished, it is a success by every measure of the word.

Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.

And what is the connection between Us and Them, how many bundled links do we find in the neural labyrinth? It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.

It's not enough to hate your enemy. You have to understand how the two of you bring each other to deep completion.

I realized that for years I'd thought of love as something that would complete me, make all my troubles go away. I worshipped at the altar of romantic completion. And it had cost me, plenty of times. ANd it had cost me most of the girls I'd dated, too, because I wanted them to be something they weren't. It's too much pressure to put on a person.

The job of the second component of your one-liner is to close the story loop, not open more.

If you get the header of your website right, you're 50 percent done with your website.

The opening and closing of a story gap is a magnetic force that drives much of human behavior. Arousal is the opening of a story gap and sexual fulfillment brings its closing. Hunger is the opening of a story gap and a meal ushers its closing.

By the time you're finished you will have a completed wireframe you can take to your designer. No more wasting money on beautiful websites that don't impact sales.

What differentiates true Christianity from the pulp many people buy into is that Jesus never offers that completion here on earth. He only asks us to trust him and follow him to the metaphorical wedding we will experience in heaven.

He was also efficient and gave me his four-step formula for success: 1. Get in. 2. Get it done. 3. Get it done right. 4. And get out.

He hesitated then, anticipating the panic that came when there was nothing left to read. - Guido Brunetti

I'm only doing this because I started it and now I have to finish it," he adds. "The next trilogy will be all someone else's vision.

You remember what you told me, Mom? That there are no medals for the completion of a good life? I've been thinking about that. About how no one wins. Like you said, it's impossible to win, because the finish line is death.

If this moment was a sentence, I'd be the period.

If this moment was a sentence, I'd be the period.

Begin at the beginning," Miss Perkins urged. "And when you get to the end, stop.

Por eso se fue, ya había hecho su trabajo.

O Jorge Luis Borges dizia que o escritor publica seus livros para livrar-se deles, para não ficar reescrevendo-os ao infinito. Mas Borges, que nunca fez um texto muito longo, foi um grande exemplo de quem sempre soube onde parar.

Gosto muito de uma frase do Zuenir Ventura, que diz que ele não gosta de escrever, gosta de ter escrito. O ato de escrever não me dá muito prazer, não. Bom é ter escrito.