Quotes About Completion

There are, I think, occasions when you know that you have arrived at the end of a long journey, when even though your destination is concealed from sight, you are somehow aware that when you turn the corner that lies just ahead of you, there it will be.

There are, I think, occasions when you know that you have arrived at the end of a long journey, when, even though your destination is still concealed from sight, you are somehow aware that when you turn the corner that likes just ahead of you, there it will be.

And that's exactly what we did.

No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.

If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.

Everything ends; you just have to figure out a way to push to the finish line.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.

Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come together into one picture.

It's like a jigsaw, there's a piece of the puzzle at the beginning and it's the only one and of course it had a lot to do with the way you look. And then you have to have the time to add pieces of the jigsaw.

That's all folks!

You can work on an album forever, but finishing it is a whole different deal.

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

Make an affirmation immediately upon waking. For example: Thy will be done this day! Today is a day of completion, I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease. Make this a habit, and one will see wonders and miracles come into his life.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now, it's complete because it's ended here.

Lo que no podía hacer era quedarse a medio camino, eso era lo más absurdo y no solo en el mundo de los negocios, sino en todos los ámbitos

Anything but stop halfway

Above he could not stop half way, that was nonsense not only in business but always and everywhere. 

You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'

I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'.

Once I close the doors, it's closed. I don't open it back up. That's kind of me as a human being. That's just one of the things about me... But yeah, for me, I don't close anything until I'm officially done.

The idea of being close to where pigments were mined - that's the first thing in making a painting, getting the material. And what's the last thing you do in making a painting? You put a frame around it.

She wanted to be whole. She wanted a man. *