Quotes About Completion

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might just as well pop right at it and get it over.

Las olas dicen a la costa firme: Todo sera cumplido.

the order was accepted, produced and delivered on time.

Better never begin; once begun, better finish.

After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

It was late morning when Kassad finished his story.

no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

Curiously, you will see that the more incandescent your desire, the less it will turn toward objects of desire, because it no longer needs them to mask incompletion.

I love you, and that's the beginning and end of everything.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my task are done.

"A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished."

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

It was like falling in love, only more than that; we knew too much by then for it to be only that. It was knowing that love was what it was, and life would not complete it and death would not stop it.

A word of faith that never balks Here, or henceforward it is all the same to me I accept Time absolutely It alone is without flaw It alone rounds and completes all That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all I accept Reality and dare not question it

emotions as a rule are in excess, and detain the mind in the contemplation of one object so that it cannot think of others."93 But "desire that arises from pleasure or pain which has reference to one or certain parts of the body has no advantage to man as a whole."94 To be ourselves we must complete ourselves.

So I would do the abridgement of the sequel and then do my own novel and ride off into the frigging sunset, thank you very much.

These windings up of unfinished years continue till the unfinished life winds up.

Create a need for closure.

If you attempt to build intimacy with a person before you've done the hard work of becoming a whole and healthy person, every relationship will be an attempt to complete the hole in your heart and the lack of what you don't have. That relationship will end in disaster."[1]

I tend to celebrate crossing over with a meditative ceremony where I print the book out and neatly stack its pages on the floor. When everything has been properly laid out, I take a few steps back from the work, close my eyes, and offer up my thanks to the writing powers for another bountiful harvest. At which point, I get a running start and dive headlong into my word-pile, rolling around and snorting like a pig. And then I fall asleep for three days. How you celebrate is up to you. But

You can't find peace until you fin fall the pieces.