Quotes About Completion

He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe.

At last, the wheel comes full circle

Love is the Turing test, says Ilet when she is eighty and drawing up the plans for a massive, luminous, lonely ship she will never see completed. It is how we check for life. We ask and we answer. We seek a human response. And you are my test, Elefsis, says Neva, one hundred and three years later, inside that ship, twelve light years from home and counting.

Neen: je plicht doen, dat was alles wat er overbleef... En die plicht was: proberen het boek te voltooien, tegen beter weten in, want wie werd iets wijzer van wat ik opschreef? Maar áf moest het, vind ik zelf, áf... voordat ik voorgoed in de alkohol kopje onder zoude gaan en eindelijk de enige verlossing zoude vinden die bestond: de Dood...

La felicità non è che il compimento

Mai lasciarsi spaventare dalla parola FINE.

Conceptual integration is at the heart of imagination. It connects input spaces, projects selectively to a blended space, and develops emergent structure through composition, completion, and elaboration in the blend. This fundamental cognitive operation has not previously been studied. What would it mean to study this operation? Is it enough to recognize the phenomenon and describe it broadly? Should this book end here? What is left to do?

A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.

A thing is complete when you can let it be.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

IF EVERYONE HAS A full circle of human qualities to complete, then progress lies in the direction we haven't been.

What's left undone today, tomorrow will not do." Faust

Estas rosas que trajeron las manos de unas penitentes llenas de amor, nos ayudaron en nuestra victoria y a completar la sagrada labor de ganar el tesoro que es esta alma.

There is no such thing as complete education, and I hope we have heard the last of the girl who is going to Boston to complete her education.

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.

Fires all go out eventually.

As Genghis Khan reportedly said, there is no good in anything until it is finished.

Once without peer, the United States has fallen to nineteenth in college completion in the OECD, and the gap in completion between higher-income and lower-income students has widened.56 Older Americans are the most educated in the world. Younger Americans, not even close.

The real poet has the last line in mind when he writes his first.

How a work of art ends is just as important as how it begins. A good opening entices us, but a strong finish nails down the experience.

If you want to be whole, you must first be partial.

All Party organizations should maintain implementing the Party's lines and policies as the major line of Party work, and carry every one of them to completion unconditionally.

All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.

The world is going to end for each of us in a prescribed time, and you sort of understand that your time is limited at a certain point, and you want to get done the things you want to get done. You don't want to leave things undone, because you only have a limited amount of time.