Quotes About Completion

The Cult of Done Bre Pettis wrote this manifesto on his blog:

But I won't be doing it next year; physically I can't. This was my year, my last hurrah, my chance to complete the circle and put a few old ghosts to rest. I had something to prove. I wanted it to be the perfect finale- ten years of something I had been a part of starting.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.

Life is full of circles

I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after.

Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'Perfection' by 'Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

Remember, itÂ's the finish, not the start, that counts the most in life.

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

Be the day never so long,Evermore at last they ring to even-song.

looseleft adj. feeling a sense of loss upon finishing a good book, sensing the weight of the back cover locking away the lives of characters you've gotten to know so well.

While Piroo and the Jemadar went round the town completing their purchases

It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

I wanted to finish my investigation, when I was so close to answers that I could taste them.

I'd rather be bored than sad. I'd rather be done than lonely.

afternoon and the furniture is all assembled.