Finishing Quotes - Page 9

• Some day we'll awake, have a reformation of the heart, teach our kids honor and kill a few sex psychologists, put boys in high schools with men teachers (not sissies), close all the girls' finishing schools, shoot all the effeciency experts and become a nation of God's people once more.

  Harry S. Truman

  Girl, Teacher, Sex

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• Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

  Pat Summitt

  Jobs, Average, Excellent Work

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.193, Crown Business

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• But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots in a mosaic, but each had a separate narrative starting a few months or a lifetime earlier and finishing that day in the New York City Marathon, the race with 37,000 stories.

  Mark Sutcliffe

  Running, New York, Cities

  Mark Sutcliffe (2013). “Why I Run: The Remarkable Journey of the Ordinary Runner”, p.70, eBookIt.com

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• One of the leading causes of divorce is sexual incompatibility. Why not mandate premarital sex, overseen, of course, by the Marriage Board to ensure that it was carried out and completed as required? The final exam question could be: "Was it good for you two?" For good measure, the engaged couple should be required to work together on a home improvement project like installing a kitchen sink or finishing a basement. That's the ultimate test of a marital relationship.

  Mike Rosen

  Sex, Couple, Home

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• It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

  Robert Reed

  Unique, Ideas, Genius

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• It's ugly to compare but the greatest was Pele. If we believe that God made ​​man, the "black" Pelé he made him perfect. He gave him everything. He lacked nothing, header, physical power, dribbling, finishing, inspiration, genius, temper, vision, goal. Everything.

  Cesar Luis Menotti

  Believe, Inspiration, Men

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• Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

  Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

  Sports, School, Sacrifice

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• Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which at the time I was finishing high school and starting college, I got involved with. I was not that heavily involved with the school at MSM my first year there. I took a semester off to start my 2nd year. Took classes I felt like taking during my third semester, but by the start of my third year, September of '86, they began the undergraduate jazz program and I joined that program.

  Jon Gordon

  Art, School, College

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• It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a few weeks before they were screening it for the world premiere, they were making changes. That's just simply something you can't do on live action.

  John Francis Daley

  World, Action, Making Changes

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.

  Elizabeth Neel

  Finishing It, Skills, Needs

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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

  Lauren Oliver

  Book, Leaving, World

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• I remember when we were at Sundance, we were in Robert Redford's screening room, and I had never seen the film look so beautiful or sound so great. It was really big and really powerful, and I had a sense of accomplishment in finishing a project like this.

  Steven Sebring

  Beautiful, Powerful, Accomplishment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even of a single coterie. It sees the light in one; is rocked and nurtured in another; is petted, developed, and attains its growth in a third; and receives its finishing touches only after passing through a multitude of hands. It is a child that can count a host of fathers--all ready to disown it.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Children, Father, Light

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• [Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .

  Olive Schreiner

  Moving, School, Space

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind.

  Lucy Larcom

  Children, Home, Men

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• The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

  Lettie Cowman

  Failure, Men, Habit

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• People read vampire novels and say, Oh I want to read another vampire novel. People read fantasy, and theyre like, Oh I love fantasy. I dont know that people are necessarily finishing Hunger Games and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.

  David Levithan

  Games, People, Vampire

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• If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspiring, Happiness, Happy

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• As a group I thought we played connected. I feel like we had a lot of great shots, some great opportunities, and for us it is just bearing down a little bit and finishing. We believe in our team, for us we have confidence, we have respect and we know it is going to take a lot of hard work and playing together as a team.

  Jennifer Botterill

  Team, Believe, Hard Work

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• 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

  Basketball, Beautiful, Differences

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• Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Years, Gone

  Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”

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• I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior year, made some progress as a 16 year-old classical saxophone player. But not really... not like how the legit cats do. But I love the [Jacques] Ibert, love [Alexander] Glazunov, love the [Paul] Creston.

  Jon Gordon

  Senior, Art, School

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• A hat is an expression of a woman’s soul. It is something that she wears on her head, but it belongs to her heart. It is the keynote of her personality, the finishing touch that makes her look beautiful, smart, and sure of herself.

  Lilly Dache

  Beautiful, Smart, Heart

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

  Daniel Pennac

  Novel

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• Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are lots of techniques they had not thought about before.

  Robert D. Hare

  School, Skills, Technique

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