Completion Quotes - Page 4

• Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Work, Men, Phrases

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• Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes, and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Design, Age, Inexperience

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• The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to higher grades of being. The first fiat of Creation which went forth, doubtlessly ensured the perfect adaptation of animals to the surrounding media; and thus, whilst the geologist recognizes a beginning, he can see in the innumerable facts of the eye of the earliest crustacean, the same evidences of Omniscience as in the completion of the vertebrate form.

  Roderick Murchison

  Eye, Science, Animal

  Roderick Impey Murchison (1854). “Siluria the History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains, with a Brief Sketch of the Distribution of Gold Over the Earth by Roderick Impey Murchison”, p.469

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• One day, because they realize for some reason or other that they must stop credit expansion, the banks do stop creating new credit to lend. Then the firms that have expanded cannot get credit to pay for the factors of production necessary for the completion of the investment projects which they have already committed themselves. Because they cannot pay their bills, they sell off their inventories cheap. Then comes the panic, the breakdown. And the depression starts.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Creating, One Day, Expansion

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• Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Self

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.418, Courier Corporation

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• A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters, in search of completion and contentment, must wrestle with that prerequisite of faith: a willingness to believe in the unseen.

  Christine Schutt

  Believe, Blessed, Character

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• It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Book, School, Museums

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• Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.

  Yehuda Berg

  Motivational, Ideas, Finishing

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• Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.

  Todd Phillips

  Needs, Members, Audience

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

  Herodotus

  Rain, Night, Snow

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.718, OUP Oxford

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• Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us also teach our children to see that the work assigned is carried to its completion and to take pride in what they accomplish.

  L. Tom Perry

  Children, Teaching, Pride

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• Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion.

  Karl Barth

  Art, Atheist, Thinking

  "A Karl Barth Reader".

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• The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human - these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, People, Together

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• Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.

  Walter J. Ong

  Closure, States, Found

  Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.129, Routledge

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• Skills training and industry-preparedness are the distinct advantages these students have. At the completion of their degree they have been trained to be biotechnology professionals.

  Lynn Dickey

  Skills Training, Degrees, Students

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• Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5 years. It was recorded simultaneously with Black Knights' Medieval Chamber, and as different as the two albums appear to be, they represent one investigative creative thought process. What I learned from one fed directly into the other. Enclosure is presently my last word on the musical statement which began with PBX.

  John Frusciante

  Years, Two, Knights

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• The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process, that is by the completion of self-reflection, and not in any unmistakable way by what the patient says or how he behaves.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Successful, Reflection, Self

  "Knowledge and Human Interests". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1971.

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• Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

  Robert Breault

  Finishing, Painting, Obvious

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• Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, People, Enlightenment

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• There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever... One exists in eternity, one has become eternal... One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Light, Views

  "New Maps of Hyperspace". Terence McKenna's speech at the Berkeley Institute for the Study of Consciousness (1984) as quoted in "Magical Blend Magazine", Issue #22, April 1989.

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• The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan's own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.

  Unknown

  Grief, Believe, Reading

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• That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Heart, Sadness, Years

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a prescribed set of requirements to guide you through the next few years. Focus your energy on the completion of those assignments and you’ll succeed. Guaranteed. Where’s my syllabus to guide me through life?

  Megan McCafferty

  School, Years, Envy

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• Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible - then some general rescue of the sort I imagined my aunt to have undertaken would be inevitable. For why do our thoughts turn to some gesture of a hand, the fall of a sleeve, some corner of a room on a particular anonymous afternoon, even when we are asleep, and even when we are so old that our thoughts have abandoned other business? What are all these fragments for , if not to be knit up finally?

  Marilynne Robinson

  Fall, Aunt, Law

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.92, Macmillan

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• There was a brief moment of weightlesssness: a balancing point between air and earth, dirt and heaven. How strange, I thought, how like the moment between sleeping and falling when everything is beautifully surreal and nothing is corporeal. How like floating towards completion. But as often happens in that time between existing in the world and fading into dreams, this moment over the edge ended with the ruthless jerk back to awareness.

  Andrew Davidson

  Dream, Fall, Sleep

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