Quotes About Completion

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to solve - much as the effort to explore the earth ran out of new continents to explore.

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know, self-examination that I had to write the book in order to complete.

To the perfect, if it be perfect, there is nothing that can be added; therefore, the will is not capable of any other desire, when that which is of the perfect is present with it, highest and best.

Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

If you believe, as I do believe, in reincarnation, they say that every time you come back, it's because you have to finish something. I've a funny feeling that my thing in this life is to have one relationship after another.

I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.

The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.

Thirteen years I took on this last book.

I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.

I've already talked to my spirit animal. He's got nothing else to tell me. I'm 60, I've done it all. I'm totally over it.

Eu gostaria que uma graça semelhante me fosse concedida: poder preparar o fim da minha vida como um compositor termina a sua sonata – para deixá-la perfeita e completa, como herança àqueles a quem amo, obra de arte acabada e bela. Mas a vida não acontece assim.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

I don't like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don't come at the end of it.

How long can you wait, alone in the dark? How long can you put off living until all your unfinished business is resolved?

Once you've tried all those things and more, and clearly know that none of it will ever be enough—then you are ready.

If you were asked to spell the name Antoninus, would you rap out each letter at the top of voice, and then, if your hearers grew angry, grow angry yourself in turn? Rather, would you not proceed to enumerate the several letters quietly one by one? Well then; remember that here in life every piece of duty is likewise made up of its separate items. Pay careful attention to each of these, without fuss and without returning temper for temper, and so ensure the methodical completion of your task.

Thus there are two reasons why you must be content with what happens to you: first because it was for you it came to pass, for you it was ordered and to you it was related, a thread of destiny stretching back to the most ancient causes; secondly because that which has come to each individually is a cause of the welfare and the completion in very truth of the actual continuance of that which governs the Whole.

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.