Quotes About Completion

Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.

When you stay in the moment, you have all the time in the world, and whatever needs to be done will be completed in the exact right time.

Once I'm done with a book, I'm done! I'm just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I've finished a book I've read it so many times that it's time to move on.

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

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

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.

The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

Gäbe es die letzte Minute nicht, so würde niemals etwas fertig.

The writing begins when you've finished. Only then do you know what you're trying to say.

There's only one choice now: finish what Zampanò himself failed to finish. Re-inter this thing in a binding tomb. Make it only a book.

Perhaps when I'm finished I'll remember what I'd hoped to say in the first place.

The last words of Max Vandenburg - You've done enough.

I still remember staying up all night to get it done, and I realize that's always the best time to finish a book. The sun is yet to come up. It seems the whole world is asleep, and there you are, on your own, with the pages set before you.

Maybe the only thing that matters is to make our lives last as long as we do. You know, to make a life last until it ends, to make all the parts come out even, like when you rub the last piece of bread in the last drop of oil on your plate and eat it with the last sip of wine in your glass.

Sometimes when we see that we only have a few pages left we slow down, savoring each word, staving off the inevitable.

happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end.

Not death. Just the end of living.

People with serious illness have priorities besides simply prolonging their lives. Surveys find that their top concerns include avoiding suffering, strengthening relationships with family and friends, being mentally aware, not being a burden on others, and achieving a sense that their life is complete. Our system of technological medical care has utterly failed to meet these needs, and the cost of this failure is measured in far more than dollars.

People with serious illness have priorities besides simply prolonging their lives. Surveys find that their top concerns include avoiding suffering, strengthening relationships with family and friends, being mentally aware, not being a burden on others, and achieving a sense that their life is complete

But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough. ... For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing. Once we know the extent to which we are capable of feeling that sense of satisfaction and completion, we can then observe which of our various life endeavors bring us closest to that fullness.