Completing Quotes - Page 3

• Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

  Robert Stromberg

  Art, Elements, Pieces

  Source: collider.com

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• Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Strong, Soul, Fusion

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• O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet,
  Completing him not otherwise complete!
  How void and useless the sad remnant left
  Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

  Abraham Coles

  Sweet, Women, Useless

  Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.79

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• I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Mean, Thinking, Aggravation

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• Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility.

  Nikola Tesla

  Success, Running, Science

  "Tesla Says Edison Was an Empiricist". The New York Times, October 19, 1931.

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• If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Moon, Men

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• What Rose brings to the Doctor’s life is completion. It’s completing a circle – he’s male, he’s alien, he’s a traveler. Between the two of them together they complement each other and discover each other. And are in love with each other – absolutely, unashamedly, unreservedly.

  Russell T Davies

  Doctors, Circles, Two

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• He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

  Sherman Alexie

  Hard Work, Finishing, Tasks

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• This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

  Albert Einstein

  Income, Philosopher, Form

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• Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.

  Giorgio Agamben

  Past, Remembrance, Becoming

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• What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Night, Childhood

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Kids, Thinking

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• For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Effort, Stories, Interpretation

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

  Joseph Priestley

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

  Joseph Priestley (1780). “The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley”, p.372

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• The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Art, Cutting, Men

  Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.20, Getty Publications

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• The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finished—and meaning is made—not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through.

  Celeste Ng

  Jobs, Space, Giving

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• Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Father, Sleep

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.180, 北戴河出版

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• When you use an excuse for not accomplishing something or not completing a project, you are actually giving power to someone or something outside of yourself.
  Regardless of what happens today, absolutely refuse to use an excuse to get off the hook.

  Bob Proctor

  Giving, Hook, Use

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 14, 2013

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• Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Stories, Next

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

  Cesare Pavese

  Work, Men, Quality

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.174, Transaction Publishers

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• We all like to look forward to things. Incentivize yourself with a reward—a massage, dinner with a friend, a night watching your favorite show, a yoga class on Saturday morning. Visualizing a reward at the end of the to-do tunnel may help with reaching goals/completing tasks.

  Samantha Ettus

  Morning, Yoga, Night

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• Having three operational vehicles in the fleet affords the shuttle program great schedule flexibility as we move toward flying safely and completing the international space station.

  Wayne Hale

  Moving, Space, Flying

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• In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Loss, Energy

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• Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

  Alfie Kohn

  Tasks, Students, Pleasure

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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