Quotes About Completion

I'm a perfectionist, and to actually finish something is good for me.

I'm a perfectionist and want things to be done now.

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

Once a task has just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all.

Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.

Chanakya says that as a Brahmin moves on after receiving offerings, a student goes his way after completing his education and animals abandon a burnt forest, similarly, a man should quickly leave the abode taken up for attaining his objective, after achieving his objective. This will indicate his wisdom.

Only now and again a sadness fell upon me, and I started up from my dream and felt a sweet trace of a strange smell in the south wind. That vague fragrance made my heart ache with longing, and it seemed to me that it was the eager breath of the summer seeking for its completion. — Rabindranath Tagore, from "iii," Poetry (December 1912)

and when Justine came to join us and saw the handsome stranger she blushed to the roots of her hair and I saw how beautiful she had become, and that she was in a sense finished, and I wondered whether this was how a painter might feel, looking at a canvas and realising there was no more he could or ought to do to it.

I felt lighter when I had finished, and for once emptiness was a sweet relief and a condition to be treasured.

The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

One of the hardest things about being a musician is finishing a project and then having to wait three or six months to publish it and to do all the sort of promotional behaviour.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but I do not work every day. I could laze for a day or two, but I wouldn't do it for three.

In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.

I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.'

I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

After coming toward the completion of Queen Sugar,' I had the opportunity to speak with the executives and head writers at Days of our Lives.'

After I wrote 'The Best Of Times' for my dad and after I completed the '12 Steps Suite' with Dream Theater, I very much felt like I had said everything I wanted to say lyrically.