Quotes About Completion

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

At the last stages of the journey, there's no journey at all.

Le monde va finir, c'est-à-dire, en réalité, «L'enfance va finir». Et, parce qu'elle va finir, elle demeurera à tout jamais inachevée.

It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

I start a picture and I finish it.

Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I'd quite often sensed in a vague sort of way, which was that the chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.

I'm sympathetic with new writers who focus so much on the beginning. That's what you show friends or beta readers to see if you are just wasting your time or if there's something there. But you won't really know until you finish the whole book.

Once taken off one task without completing the transaction, the mind continues to seek closure. Fight to stay focused on the task at hand.

The power of momentum: steady wins the race. The power of completion: clear out your undones and incompletes. The power of reflection: facing the man or woman in the mirror. The power of celebration: catch yourself doing something right.

A sea-level task is one we'd expect to complete before intentionally stopping to do something else.

take the final necessary steps—arranging and recording—needed to dress my songs up enough to send them out into the world.

La vida acaba cuando hemos aprendido todo lo que tenemos que aprender.

Mystery is not merely a way of saying that reason has not yet completed its victory. It is the goal where reason arrives when it attains its perfection by becoming love.

Done is better than good.

At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart.

Because when it all comes together, it's amazing. When it all comes together, the only thing you can do is bow down in gratitude, as if you have been granted an audience with the divine. Because you have.

El final es el mismo, así que mejor si el viaje es feliz.

You may want your work to be perfect, in other words; I just want mine to be finished.

Done is better than good." I

We don't have time for perfect.

Perfectionism stops people from completing their work, yes—but even worse, it often stops people from beginning their work.

Because the truth of the matter is, most people don't finish things! Look around you, the evidence is everywhere: People don't finish. They begin ambitious projects with the best of intentions, but then they get stuck in a mire of insecurity and doubt and hairsplitting . . . and they stop. So if you can just complete something—merely complete it!—you're already miles ahead of the pack, right there.

But at five o'clock they knew it was time to give up. She was done, and nobody needed to tell them.

And they all died happily ever after. A very happy ending," the littlest one said.