Quotes About Completion

Of course, any book, and any piece of writing, is already part of a cooperative. It is, in itself as printed on the page, incomplete. It requires a reader to complete it. But the reader may also misunderstand it, distort it in favor of another idea, forget large parts of it, misremember it, create something different in misremembering it, etc. All these responses are perfectly legitimate parts of the cooperative act.

After sowing seeds in the soil and completing our various tasks, we need to be able to walk away without seeking to be noticed. We should not hold on to any expectations about witnessing the harvest.

As long as we try to fill this yearning with things other than God and activities other than God's purposes, we are unfulfilled and incomplete.

Time doesn't mean anything to me. I just work along with nature, and in time it is finished." Mike from Melanie Cove

Once there was a single being, a complete whole, a man and a woman as one entity in paradise. As punishment, they were cleaved apart. And for eternity forced to spend their lives trying to find their perfect puzzle other half. When you find your perfect puzzle other half, Delphine, it is blasphemy to walk away, to deny the pleasure that is due you.

It is done. I will think of them no more. I cast them out and I am finished.

The whole, vast world was incomplete without me. Creation reached its finishing touch in me.

I've never understood people who grind through a book they don't really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.

It takes about an hour to kill all of the tumor that can be seen on the MR. At the completion of the procedure, another MR scan is performed to confirm

There's no peace in dying, but there's peace when it's done.

Grown-ups shouldn't finish books they're not enjoying. When you're no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don't have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don't have to finish books you don't like.

nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

Unlike Alice, Garp was a real writer —not because he wrote more beautifully than she wrote but because he knew what every artist should know: as Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions. Garp did not write faster than anyone else, or more; he simply always worked with the idea of completion in mind.

First chapter ain't so bad, Jillsy said. That first chapter ain't nothin'. It's that nineteenth chapter that got me, Jillsy said. Lawd, Lawd! she crowed. You read nineteen chapters? John Wolf asked. You didn't give me no more than nineteen chapters, Jillsy said. Jesus Lawd, is there another chapter? Do they keep goin' on? No, no, John Wolf said. that's the end of it. That's all there is.

But you don't see with hindsight in a first draft. You have to finish the first draft to see what you've missed.

Grown-ups shouldn't finish books they're not enjoying.

les exigí que leyesen Guerra y paz hasta la última página.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Reality is the completion of experience.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!

I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith.

Don't stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done!!

The reality of getting it done is more satisfying than the dream of getting it perfect.