Quotes About Completion

All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.

It's very, very clear that you cannot move to the next phase unless the former one has been fully accomplished.

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted it to be. You edit it, make sure the light and contrast are right, then you just put it away, and that's your photograph. Then you don't really think about it anymore.

My night is over only when there are no more photos to take and nothing left to sign.

'Everything is four' is a phrase that has been coined before me. Four is a number of completion. Four is a number that's literally all around.

The phrase that I use a lot is you've got to connect the dots and keep connecting them up to the finish.

I believe in picking a strong ending.

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

I have slight attention-span issues, so I will often wander off, and then I will be alerted - in inverted commas - when the smoke alarm goes off. So that's how I work out if a bake is finished.

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

There is never going to be an end point. But definitely, I am happy to complete a certain part of my journey, and that's something I want to celebrate.

Dhobi Ghat' is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct.

Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of such a practice tells your mind and body that the day's work is over and you are free to relax and sleep.

All the Midkemia stories are part of a 'history of an imaginary place,' so I've always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I just got to the end after 30 books. So there was no particular inspiration, save it was time to finish the whole shebang.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state... when you go to war, it can't be a half-step.

In a span of months she had present for birth and for death, the wondrous first breath and the horrible last. But wasn't it an honor to be there at the end of life as well as the beginning? To mark the extraordinariness of a lifetime, to bear witness to its completion?

Whate?er the work a man performs, The most effective aid to its completion? The most prolific source of true success? Is energy, without despondency.

In Silicon Valley, most engineers work on projects that will never be completed- this holds true at large companies as well as small. If engineers are lucky enough to witness the rare day when the product is completed and launched, they will, in the overwhelming majority of cases, witness the product's failure in the marketplace.

Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.

When you think about retiring, you're done. You already checked out.