Quotes About Completion

I have also learned—through hard experience—that there is no virtue in putting something on a to-do list and then not doing it. It's just as not done as if it were never on the list in the first place, only now it's sitting there, mocking me in its undoneness.

You could have a million ideas, but they're all worthless if you don't get them done.

The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy ' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.

a poem is only finished when the last reader has read it or listened to it.

enough, we had enough time, any of this was enough?

Biterek ölmek ne güzel, ba?lamadan ölmek korkunç!

When the furnace was completed, we figured it would require several days to dry, so as to be fit for use, and during this time I concluded to visit Killisnoo and buy a few luxuries as well as a bottle of Carter's Little Liver Pills, as I pretended to need some medicine.

My narrative may be invaded by inaccuracy and confusion; but if I live no longer, I will, at least, live to complete it. What but ambiguities, abruptnesses, and dark transitions, can be expected from the historian who is, at the same time, the sufferer of these disasters?

El tiempo es el mejor autor: siempre encuentra un final perfecto.

Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done

I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret—

consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing" (James 1:2-4). God's

Reihm wasn't thrilled by the Moon walk that he and his colleagues had worked for years to make possible; he was thrilled by its being over

The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it's not where you're going to find your sense of completion.

A fine layer of dust must settle on literature before it's truly complete.

The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday.

Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…

Don't quote your proverb till you bring your ship into port.

We hope for sympathy in a violent, damning, world, all that we've known and experienced in real life—as opposed to phantom memory. We long for confirmation and completion and justification—and we also long to survive and learn that our reckless existence has meaning.

There's a subtle yet significant difference between leaving our jobs, friends, and romances because we're complete and staying with them because of the fear that there's nothing else for us!

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

It's a chicken instinct. He's here for a reason. It's time to step in, face Deus Brânquia, force Hoffstetler's experiments to completion. No, not Deus Brânquia. The asset, that's all it is. Why has he started thinking of it as Deus Brânquia again? He's got to stop that. The good old Alabama Howdy-do, the heavy-duty Farm-Master 30 cattle prod, is long and straight in his palm, a handrail guiding him from an opiate haze back into the real world.