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Quotes About Completion

PERHAPS IN SOME FORMAL SENSE every book begins by considering its own impossibility, but this book's completion has depended on a way of working with that impossibility without a clear resolution. Even so, something of that impossibility has to be sustained within the writing, even if it continually threatens to bring the project to a halt.
~ Judith Butler
Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely done. With every accomplishment there arises a new responsibility... Sabbath dissolves the artificial urgency of our days, because it liberates us from the need to be finished.
~ Wayne Muller
The landing is more important than the flight.
~ Wesley D'Amico
What color do you need to finish painting your paradise?
~ Wesley D'Amico
Life is spherical now.
~ Dany Laferrière
She is beginning to understand that completion is not so much about reaching perfection as it is making the choice to look away from the material. What was it Khalil used to say when she couldn't finish a paper in college? Be a completionist, not a perfectionist.
~ Danzy Senna
something—to make something right and final—is to kill it.
~ Danzy Senna
She is beginning to understand that completion is not so much about reaching perfection as it is making the choice to look away from the material. What was it Khalil used to say when she couldn't finish a paper in college? Be a
~ Danzy Senna
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I've finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.
~ Dave Barry
You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.
~ Dave Davies
There will also be a number of other novels which were bequeathed in an unfinished state to Robert, who has taken on the daunting task of completing Dave's work, so there will be co-authored Dave Duncan novels.
~ Dave Duncan
This is the end. There will be no more Blades books! (Thank you for liking them so much.)
~ Dave Duncan
You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.
~ David Allen
Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
~ David Allen
instantly, and Danny quickly saved the work he had done on the
~ David Archer
I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done
~ James Bond
As cliche as it sounds you complete me and I complete you
~ James D Wilson
Are you guys done up there?" Aris yelled, still facing the other direction. "Yes!" Teresa called back. "And don't expect me to ever kiss you on the cheek again. I think my lips have a fungus now.
~ James Dashner
The most grateful pilgrim is the one who has finished the longest journey.
~ James Martin
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labor, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
~ James McNeill Whistler
We display the success of what we have done by not having to do anything.
~ James P Carse
Infinite players cannot say how much they have completed in their work or love or quarreling, but only that much remains incomplete in it. They are not concerned to determine when it is over, but only what comes of it.
~ James P. Carse
We should explain this as like a whole other challenge of gameplay, is when you're on like a time limit. I have to watch my kids in three minutes right now, and I'm on the very last part of Mega Man X. That is tense shit.
~ James Rolfe
Closure is for jars, books, and closet doors.
~ James Sallis