Quotes About Completion

Great is the art of beginning, but even greater is the art of ending.

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything.

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.

I just finished a Jackie Chan movie, yes. That was an experience. I can mark that off on my bucket list.

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation.

Even after the text is written, there are a tremendous number of stages along the way to the finished book. If a publisher cares about the finished product, none of them will be omitted.

I worked with him in a way where there was no need to align. We felt and the feeling was simple but complex. It was the intensity in our grasp and when it was done, it was done.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

One of my responsibilities is to make sure that justice is done for our citizens . . . . I want this case to be completed. Until that happens, it will continue to burden our relationship.

I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.

Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.

Maybe you don't have to kill her. Masao, how close to completion is the Tanaka Lagoon?" "Two weeks, but JAMSTEC cut off our funding. Jonas, you're not thinking of capturing this creature?" "Why not? The lagoon's certainly big enough to hold one Megalodon. You could study the creature while drawing huge crowds. Within a few months you'd be debt-free.

In the Christian life, it's not how you start that matters. It's how you finish.

The goal is just to finish.

Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.

To have the opportunity to complete the slam at the Open at St Andrews, the home of golf, is something I will never ever forget.

It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.

I'm a very impatient person. I like things to be done. So I complete a lot of projects, but it helps to partner or collaborate with someone who's the opposite because they can tell me when to slow down.

Each book develops a strong organic shape. And when that shape is complete, the book is complete. I don't know where the end is. I don't start at the beginning. It's like playing Tetris in my head in a very slow kind of way. All the shapes join up.

Once I've properly finished a book, my ideal state of being would be to never think about it again. But with 'Capital,' I felt I'd spent so much time with the characters that they were very, very real, and I definitely had a sense of loss about leaving them behind in a way I've not quite had before.

Let death take me planting my cabbages, indifferent to him, and still less of my garden not being finished. (tr. Charles Cotton)