Quotes About Completion

Life is made up of circles.

Don't be afraid of finishing a book and putting it out there for the world to see. If you're waiting for perfect, your wait will never end.

And it feels like, finally.

And I kiss him. And it feels like, finally.

But I just put my hand on the back of his neck- And he says, "Viola-?" And I pull myself toward him- And I kiss him. And it feels like, finally.

Life equals running and when we stop running, maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

sooner begun is sooner done

It's like the fellah in the lavatory said, No job's over 'til the paperwork's done.

1 Get it right from the beginning 2 Just listen … and read 3 Let's talk 4 Get two for one 5 Teach what is teachable 6 Get it right in the end

I have always hated loose ends... If I read a book or see a film and some seemingly insignificant thing is left unresolved, I can get remarkably unsettled, going back and forth and looking for clues or wishing I had a number to call or that I could write someone a letter. Not to complain, but just to request clarification or to answer a few questions, so I can concentrate on other things.

I always hated loose ends. Dangling phrases, unopened packages, or a character that inexplicably disappears, like a lone sheet on a clothesline before a vague storm, left to flap in the wind until that same wind carries it away to become the skin of a ghost or a child's tent.

Sub-goals, some indication of progress. Part of the pleasure of a crossword puzzle is the feeling of progress as you get closer to completion, bit by bit, through the meeting of small goals. This is what much of gamification is about: using points or currency or badges or progress bars to indicate that you're getting closer to the end;

You see, God hasn't promised you a good job or great kids. He hasn't promised you an easy marriage and a comfortable place to live. He hasn't promised you physical health and a good church to attend. He hasn't promised that you would experience affluence and be surrounded by things that entertain you. What he has promised is that he will complete the work that he has begun in you.

God is not working to deliver to you your personal definition of happiness. If you're on that agenda page, you are going to be disappointed with God and you are going to wonder if he loves you. God is after something better—your holiness, that is, the final completion of his redemptive work in you.

We have peace because we know that he will complete the good things that he in grace has initiated in our lives.

Writing is more than typing words: Any action that is instrumental in completing a writing project counts as writing.

As a consequence of Wittgenstein's philosophy, the questions once asked by philosophy have now passed into the realms of poetry. The way poetry is going, it looks as if they won't be asked much longer here either. We have learned to do without God, and it looks as if we will learn to do without philosophy. It will now, alas, join the ranks of subjects which are completed (and have become completely spurious), such as alchemy, astrology, platonic love, and stylitism.

For when your labor is all done, And you've done all your reckonings, You hasten home without delay, And, just as dumb as any stone, You sit and read another book Until completely dazéd is your look.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

In the eyes of those who anxiously seek perfection, a work is never truly completed—a word that for them has no sense—but abandoned.

Aux yeux de ces amateurs d'inquiétude et de perfection, un ouvrage n'est jamais achevé, – mot qui pour eux n'a aucun sens, – mais abandonné.

Work is never finished, only abandoned.