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Quotes About Completion

No," she said, "she wanted to have used every bit of her energy, every second of her time, and have given every drop of her love away so that when she got to heaven, what had been her on this earth was all finished and done with.
~ Carolyn Brown
Jesus won the war, and the rest of history is simply mopping up.
~ Carolyn Custis James
I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I'm afraid that if I stop writing I'll stop thinking and start feeling.
~ Carrie Fisher
And now, as a summer flower shatters in September ,it was finished.
~ Carson McCullers
For forty years his mission was his life and his life was his mission. And yet all remained to be done and nothing was completed.
~ Carson McCullers
Nothing lay around loose in me any more but was finished up by her.
~ Carson McCullers
We're being paid to create value. This means getting up out of our reading chairs and getting things done. To be successful, raw ability will get you only so far. The final stretch is populated by closers—people who finish things.
~ Chad Fowler
There is never an end to our work. It is not given to us to complete it. Who completes his work? That is the way of the world, Asher. Only the Master of the Universe completed His work. And it is said that even the Master of the Universe needs humankind in order truly to complete the Creation. Without man, what is God? And without God, what is man? Everyone needs the help of someone to complete the work of Creation that is never truly completed. Everyone. An artist, a Rebbe, everyone.
~ Chaim Potok
It would have made me a whore to leave it incomplete. It would have made it easier to leave future work incomplete. It would have made it more and more difficult to draw upon that additional aching surge of effort that is always the difference between integrity and deceit in a created work.
~ Chaim Potok
Without man, what is God? And without God, what is man? Everyone needs the help of someone to complete the work of Creation that is never truly completed. Everyone.
~ Chaim Potok
THE JOURNEY WAS NEARLY OVER. The
~ Chang-Rae Lee
We reached the end of the tunnel together, and
~ Charlaine Harris
I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.
~ Ryan Gosling
Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.
~ Todd Phillips
I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.
~ Anthony Horowitz
My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.
~ Karrine Steffans
I like the minute when I can get off the stage and go home, and I know I've done a good job.
~ Chelsea Handler
The end is no process
~ Thomas Bernhard
NEVER PUT OFF FOR TOMORROW, WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY
~ Thomas Jefferson
Das Gute kommt immer zu spät, immer wird es zu spät fertig, wenn man sich nicht mehr recht darüber freuen kann.
~ Thomas Mann
When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.
~ Thomas Merton
SIT FINIS LIBRI, NON FINIS QUAERENDI
~ Thomas Merton
la satisfacción del deseo implica también la muerte del deseo.
~ Katherine Neville
leaving each other, and all those impacted by our separation, whole, healthy, and complete rather than wounded, walled off, and significantly broken by the experience.
~ Katherine Woodward Thomas