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Quotes About Completion

My goal was to get through the day as fast as possible. I worked fast because I wanted to be done. I wanted to be done because I wanted to go home to my nest and drink.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
She is the crescendo, the final astonishing work of God. Woman. In one least flourish creation comes to a finish not with Adam, but with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch… His piece de resistance. She fills a place in the world nothing and no one else can fill… (Ladies) Look out across the earth and say to yourselves, "The whole, vast world is incomplete without me. Creation reached its zenith in me.
~ Stacy Eldredge
The park took nearly ten years to build and cost over nine million dollars, a staggering sum in those days. By the end of the Civil War, most of the work on the park had been completed, though the problem of squatters' shacks—particularly in the park's northern reaches—would continue for a number of years.
~ Stephen Birmingham
When the first task completes, consider whether to cancel the remaining tasks. If the other tasks are not canceled but are also never awaited, then they are abandoned. Abandoned tasks will run to completion, and their results will be ignored. Any exceptions from those abandoned tasks will also be ignored.
~ Stephen Cleary
All gone. All anger quelled, all desire drained, all thirst slaked, all madness past.
~ Stephen Fry
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
~ Stephen King
Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.
~ Stephen King
How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.
~ Stephen King
Give me what I want and I will go away
~ Stephen King
You play the game to the end. That's how it works; play to the end.
~ Stephen King
Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work!
~ Delia J. Colvin
The middle [those rough patches that come before the completion of our milestones] is only a temporal place, never settle there or cut corners to get out!
~ Dionna L. Hayden
I am fulfilling my destiny.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.
~ Bob Marley
The wheel is come full circle.
~ William Shakespeare
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
~ Octavio Paz
Love is the bond of perfection.
~ John Winthrop
In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?
~ Jackson Pollock
A person with a golden heart is filled with love and likes to see something that he starts completed and done well.
~ Harold Klemp
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Destiny leaves no soul bereft of it's compliment." - Roald le Beau
~ Emma Holly
A good beginning makes a good end.
~ English proverb
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
~ Eric Hoffer