Quotes About Completion

Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-on-demand print run of a dozen or so copies, shows publishers and editors a completed piece of work and that you can follow through on a project.

I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

We are supposed to come to the end of our lives not with anything left, but everything exhausted. The tires are blown down, your out of gasoline, you are coming to a screeching halt - you know you have done everything you can possible do.

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

I'm not a big fan of options, to be honest. The more options that I have, the less time that I spend actually completing things... ultimately, I think, if you have endless choices, I mean, the tendency to just choose endlessly is there, and that doesn't do anything for anybody, really.

There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

Don't consider a site or app done until everyone can use it.

Death will reveal what you otherwise would have finished. Also what you never would have finished. I found the notes for a book a woman had been working on for thirty years: sixteen pages.

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. —JAMES 1:4 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

But Neve, you can't start a book and leave it halfway through,' he'd said implacably. 'It's almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.

Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

This phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole has a name. It's called closure. In our daily lives, we often commit closure, mentally completing that which is incomplete based on past experience.

I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Phil. 1:3–6 NIV)

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thess. 5:23)

You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.

It takes a long time to publish a book.

There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.

All things in the fulness of time

It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.