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Quotes About Completion

There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of completion. Winter is a season unto itself.
~ Haruki Murakami
What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.
~ Haruki Murakami
All's well that ends well." "Assuming there's an end somewhere," Aomame said. Tamaru formed some short creases near his mouth that were faintly reminiscent of a smile. "There has to be an end somewhere. It's just that nothing's labeled 'This is the end.' Is the top rung of a ladder labeled 'This is the last rung. Please don't step higher than this'?
~ Haruki Murakami
Las historias, llevadas a término, son exploraciones de los límites de la legitimidad.
~ Hayden White
Seule la totalite personnifie la verite. Neanmoins, la totalite represente simplement la nature essentielle parvenant a son etat complet au travers du processus de son propre developpement. Il doit etre dit que, fondamentalement, l'Absolu est un resultat, et c'est seulement a la fin qu'il represente ce qu'il est veritablement.
~ Hegel
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
~ C. S. Forester
When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.
~ Lisa Marie Presley
Reading the final copy of my book was like walking down memory lane all over again. Sure, the writing process was emotional, but when I had the final copy in my hands, it was a completely different feeling.
~ Gigi Gorgeous
When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
~ Yul Brynner
We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
~ Carl Sandburg
When I was 19, I wrote a novel, which was not very good, but I finished it.
~ Naomi Alderman
I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value.
~ Martine Syms
What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.
~ Jim Jarmusch
I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
~ Alistair MacLean
Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
~ Daniel Clowes
Pell grants are critical tools for lower- and middle-income students to access higher education, and by expanding access to year-round courses, we can help non-traditional students complete their education sooner, allowing them to start their careers and pay off their loans.
~ Elise Stefanik
I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that.
~ Tony Gilroy
I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.
~ Ziad Doueiri
Demand to know the school's accreditation. Regional accreditation is preferable to national, particularly if you want to transfer credits. Check with the certifying association or potential employer in your field to ensure successful completion of the program will actually qualify you for that job.
~ Lisa Madigan
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
~ John Desmond Bernal
Night always comes.
~ SISSY BOYD
All things, by desiring their own perfection, desire God Himself.
~ St Thomas Aquinas
Behold, these things pass away, that others may replace them, and so this lower universe be completed by all his parts.
~ St. Augustine
to Alexander the Great, who wept when there were no more worlds to conquer...
~ Stanley Bing