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Quotes About Completion

You know, deployments are like final assembly in a manufacturing plant. Every flow of work goes through it, and you can't ship the product without it.
~ Gene Kim
Instead, code is only "done" when it has been fully tested and is operating in production as designed. (Note
~ Gene Kim
You probably don't even see when work is committed to your organization. And if you can't see it, you can't manage it—let alone organize it, sequence it, and have any assurance that your resources can complete it.
~ Gene Kim
Stop starting. Start finishing.
~ Gene Kim
But the good thing about subtle hints was that one could ignore them as long as the actual work got done.
~ Genevieve Cogman
What the Hell am I supposed to do with the extra ten minutes, when he finishes early today?
~ Georg Buchner
Când ai de facut o lucrare, nu te gândi mereu la întregimea ei; executa fragmentul pe care-l ai în fata, si când ai terminat cu el, mergi mai departe
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
~ George C. Marshall
Shaman ninjas. Perfect. Now my life was complete.
~ Ilona Andrews
Even at the very end of life, healing a relationship can transform the history of a family. A relationship that is complete need not end; in this context, complete means there is nothing left unsaid or undone. When a dying person and a loved one come to feel complete between themselves, time together tends to be as full of joy and loving affection as sadness.
~ Ira Byock
If only it were over, done, without the awful doing of it.
~ Iris Murdoch
He felt as if something had been completed and he would never see any of those people again.
~ Iris Murdoch
You can go now. There's nothing more to learn. I am poured out and empty. Good night.
~ Iris Murdoch
But the poem was a Liebestod and although art cannot but console for what it weeps over, the completion of the poem left him sour and sick and utterly convinced of the henceforward impossibility of love.
~ Iris Murdoch
For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?
~ Isaac Asimov
That's another trouble with education as we now have it. People think of education as something that they can finish.
~ Isaac Asimov
But as for me,' and he concluded in a whisper, so that Gaal could scarcely hear him, 'I am finished.
~ Isaac Asimov
I must not linger on details, daughter, because if we dally, this account may be left unfinished, and no one wants to read hundreds of quartos only to find that the story has no clear ending.
~ Isabel Allende
Não há nada tão insatisfatório como um fim com pontas soltas, essa tendência moderna de deixar os livros a meio.
~ Isabel Allende
Dicen que nunca se termina un libro, que simplemente el autor se da por vencido.
~ Isabel Allende
My job is to go put the ball in the end zone.
~ Kyler Murray
There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
~ Thomas Carlyle
God alone can finish.
~ John Ruskin
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes