Quotes About Completion

When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.

There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.

If you look at my fights, you see I finish a lot. It's just how I like to go and I'm always looking for a way to end it.

Everybody should enjoy your final product.

Commencement Day has a sobering finality in that it's the end of the prescribed path.

We will never finish everything on our to-do lists. It's not possible, and that is life!

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.

When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.

If I start something, I have to finish it. I know that's annoying - it drives my husband mad - but even if something's not going my way, I have to see it through.

I'm a one-track mind: Once I start something, I have to finish it.

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

I finish what I eat. I'm not a leftover guy. I mean business when I eat dinner.

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

I finish what I have to do in the office.

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.