Quotes About Completion

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.

Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on.

At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.

The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the job requires another 90% of the time. The first condition of immortality is death.

When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.

I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.

Soon is not as good as now.

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.

Getting it done is my reward.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.

The dance is over.

There's a profound satisfaction in finally giving up something meaningless, for no other reason than that we did it to the max and now we're ready to move on.

you have to do it till you're done

I shall feel safer when we are through Knightsbridge.

Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection

salt by definition is a compound created by the neutralization of an acid and a base. Both are extremely unstable—one because it lacks an electron and the other because it has an extra one. So they are, like a good marriage, attracted to each other because they solve each other's problem, complete each other, and result in an extremely stable compound.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.