Quotes About Completion

You keep writing because it's the only way to finish the book.

If you're still stuck, re-watch Misery and imagine that your number one fan insists that you finish by the end of the month.

Keep writing. Get to the end. Don't allow yourself to abandon the project. You must finish what you write. But what, you ask, if I have a chaotic mess at the end? Celebrate. This is the way it usually is, even for veteran novelists.

Don't get it right, get it written.

She was the Queen who finished out the suit of dark Jacks, dark King and Joker

Abraham Lincoln never lived to see the completion of the task he had begun with his Proclamation—the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment by three-quarters of the states in December 1865.

Roosevelt seemed to feel," Harrison remarked, "that everything ought to be done before sundown.

Deux ou trois choses dont je suis sûre, et l'une d'entre elles est que raconter l'histoire jusqu'au bout est un acte d'amour

I don't like to see things done badly on either. At the moment, I am tired of journeys. It is time I arrived somewhere.

But He, unshaken, with exultant voice cried, It is finished! and gave up the ghost. Finished--when men had thought it scarce begun.

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built, and we've got to build another one.

Fou, très fou! Why, in New Orleans I would have finished

With a true and authentic awakening, who and what we are becomes clear. There's no longer a question about it; it is a done deal. In this way, one of the hallmarks of a true awakening is the end of seeking. You no longer feel the momentum, the push and the pull. The seeker has been revealed as the virtual reality it always was, and as such it disappears. The seeker has in some sense accomplished its task.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things...

That's peace - real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on... Yes, peace.

Do a thing well then leave it alone .

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any further... you've got to the end of things.

Huzur buna derler., gerçek huzur. Her ?eyin sonuna gelmi? olmak... Ya?amay? sürdürmek zorunda olmamak... Evet, gerçek huzur budur.

Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

Just a few more minutes… We're almost at the—

Despite Schelling's aspirations and claims, he was instrumental not in the completion of metaphysics, but rather in its abandonment.

In claiming to have exhausted the dialectically structured categorial realm, Hegel claims to have completed philosophy. In fact, however, he has completed at best only first philosophy; his system represents at most the highest theoretical knowledge, that which grounds further inquiry. Grounding such inquiry is however quite different from completing it. In complete metaphysics, Hegel provides philosophical anthropology with the point from which it can begin.

All I can say for certain is that, beneath the scrambled chaos of my memories, I feel a driving imperative, a sense of some vital task that I must complete, and which has not yet reached cessation. But I could be completely mistaken. Perhaps I was simply a tourist, ambling his way from sight to sight with no greater goal than to accumulate memories and experience - much like yourselves, in fact.