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Finishing Quotes & Sayings

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One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen. — Johannes Brahms

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person. — Rolf Harris

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job. — Carroll O'Connor

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started. — David Allen

O thy! Thou made me infinite with infinite love.
Not by finishing, but by transforming to
infinite for infinite joy! — Debasish Mridha

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. — Claude Monet

The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come. — Lawrence Kudlow

Finishing first is nothing to brag about. — Giacomo Casanova

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people. — Carter G. Woodson

The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing. — Gabriela Sabatini

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious. — Robert Breault

Not just starting marathons but actually finishing them ... (no matter how long it takes) will always lead to making a better you. — Timothy Pina

I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences. — Brian Kiley

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished. — Neil Welliver

Focus on the journey not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. — Greg Anderson

Bacon always woke at the first light of day and worked for several hours, usually finishing around noon. — Mason Currey

What's the best part about writing a book?
Finishing it. — Rick Riordan

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. — Richard M. Nixon

I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong! — Eric Thomas

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. — Oscar Wilde

I love him to death, there's an Edwardian finishing touch to everything he does. — Helene Hanff

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school. — Richard Peck

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product. — Eugene Delacroix

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race. — Louis Zamperini

The satisfaction I feel from finishing another story is tantamount to, say, crossing the finish line for the career marathoner. — Susan Wingate

It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job. — Gail Carriger

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. — Don Roff

There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting. — Gautama Buddha

Sometimes, I wondered if I might speed up his words by grabbing his wrists and finishing his gestures for him. — Erik Bundy

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished. — Daniel H. Pink

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo — Leigh Bardugo

until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Trust is a lot to ask of someone. — Gail Carriger

I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever. — Peter Drucker

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting. — John Updike

In the formative present, you are becoming who you will be in the future. — Sarah Lynn Phillips

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it. — Stan Smith

There is always a finishing line for everyone though we may not all have the same finishing line. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We like the shadows. That's where all the power is. — Gail Carriger

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. — Ernest Hemingway,

Whilst you have not yet reached the finishing line, work hard with diligence and tenacity! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history. — Peter Weller

Shoes are the finishing touch on any outfit and it is important to complete a look with the perfect pair! — Tracy Reese

Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next. — Ernest Hemingway,

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock. — Gail Tsukiyama

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry. — Lauren Oliver

Winning isn't the only goal, sometimes finishing is more important. — Katie Graykowski

The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end. — Genghis Khan

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing. — Peter Gabriel

Two things are difficult about writing a novel. Starting and finishing — Bangambiki Habyarimana

We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood. — Harville Hendrix

The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon. — Hal Higdon

Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today. — Martha Alderson

Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them. — Marie Forleo

Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose. — Gail Carriger

Starting requires motivation, finishing demands perseverance. — Moagi Keretetse

Finishing is torture ... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it. — Jacob Collins

Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere. — Jane Goldman

It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have. — Claude Monet

I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line. — Sabirul Islam

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything. — Mario Batali

He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense. — Gail Carriger

He made me realize that hard work
that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task
is joyous — Sherman Alexie

I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level. — Al-Waleed Bin Talal

After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess. — Gail Carriger

Finishing things take power, but it makes you more powerful. — Sherman Toppin

To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of champagne. — James A. Michener

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals. — Donal Logue

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil. — Emeril Lagasse

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved. — Daniel Pennac

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose ... — Claude Monet

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing. — Ravi Zacharias

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by. — Marshall Faulk

Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one. — Charles McCarry

The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things. — Tim Zuck

Our ultimate finishing line in life is death! Whilst you have life, work hard and trust God! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. — Euripides

Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it's cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing. — Ice Cube

How terrible to die without finishing a book, she thought. Never to know the end of the story. — Heather Young

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be. — Bill Gates

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things. — Neil Gaiman

I think, from every actor I've ever spoken to, they say the biggest thing they regret from life is not finishing school. — Tom Holland

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece. — Don Meyer

I go up to my room to put the finishing touches on Margot's scrapbook and listen to only the slow songs from Dirty Dancing, — Jenny Han

Shut your cake hole, you revolting young blot. — Gail Carriger

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress. — Christian Dior

Evil genius-ness was like that--showy. — Gail Carriger

We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran — Wesley Clark

Marketing is a race without a finishing line — Philip Kotler

The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you. — Henry Russell Sanders

It is a comforting thing to know that the Lord will not begin the good work without also finishing it. — D.L. Moody

I love that feeling of just finishing a workout and knowing I'm taking care of my body. It is such a good feeling. — Jenna Ushkowitz

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses. — Eugene Delacroix

A little at a time until less becomes more and more becomes less on the other side. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

It is impossible to make time but you can always make a commitment. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

To take one step forward is the way to the finishing line, it doesn't matter how long it takes as long you'll get there eventually. — Euginia Herlihy

My pictures really finish themselves. — Howard Hodgkin

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details. — Cobi Jones