Completion Quotes - Page 6

• Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

  Octavio Paz

  Love Is, Desire, Yearning

  Octavio Paz (1995). “The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism”, Harcourt

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• If this is something you'd truly like to work on, not out of a sense of guilt but because you would enjoy occasionally reciprocating, there are a wealth of resources out there for the enthusiastic amateur (you are far from the only would-be blow-jobber whose spirit is willing but gag reflex is weak). You have more options than "no blow jobs, ever" and "regular whole-hog sessions to completion that result in vomiting."

  Mallory Ortberg

  Jobs, Blow, Guilt

  "Open Shut Case" by Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. December 22, 2015.

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• No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Lying, Grace

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• When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain, we can bring back up with us the sweetness of life and the exhilaration of inner growth. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Pain, Heart, Loss

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.81, Random House

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• Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

  Frank Herbert

  Predictions, Absolutes

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.234, Penguin

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• The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a course - appears to be an excellent means of sharpening the mind and developing mental skills that are of general benefit.

  Keith Devlin

  Mean, Skills, Mind

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• Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Running, Moving, Somewhere Else

  "s anybody out there?: religions and belief in God in the contemporary world". Book by John Bowker, p. 57, 1988.

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• Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.

  Mardy Grothe

  Baseball, Games, Play

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• With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the commencement of the new one, we trust they will not ultimately result in this generation's being acquainted with these inventions through the medium of pen, ink and paper merely; and still more do we hope, that for the honour of our country's reputation in the future pages of history, these causes will not lead to the completion of the undertaking by some other nation or government.

  Ada Lovelace

  Country, Ink And Paper, Government

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• There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

  Ryan Giggs

  Football, Careers, Next

  "EXCLUSIVE: When Gary met Ryan... 'I've never, ever experienced a shock like that on the football pitch,' says Giggs on United's Champions League exit". Interview with Gary Neville, www.dailymail.co.uk. March 9, 2013.

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• Getting Stronger - Each day upon entering the weight room you demonstrate a desire for excellence that makes you someone special. Special, because few people possess the dedication and strength of heart required to regularly work hard at something this difficult. Upon completion of each workout, you can and should feel proud, for you have just moved one step closer towards reaching your full potential and the ultimate goal of and being the best you can be.

  Mike Berry

  Workout, Hard Work, Heart

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• The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

  Socrates

  Hands, Tasks, Needs

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• We must never forget that BYU is not just another "good" university. It was established by the Lord's servants and continues to be blessed with the direction and support of prophets, seers, and revelators. While we may not understand all of the details, we do know that Brigham Young University occupies a key place in the Lord's plans for the completion of His work in these last days.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Blessed, Byu, Keys

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• I think my first love is film. There's something about the span of it and the completion of the experience. You sit down for two hours, in the dark, and you go somewhere else, and then you come back, having completed a journey.

  Jon Spaihts

  First Love, Dark, Journey

  Source: collider.com

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• The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Successful, Hands

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• In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.

  Mitch Glazer

  Writing, Want, Way

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• A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self, Perfection, Simplicity

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• Completing a large or difficult survey can be a very satisfying thing, especially if there have been hurdles or setbacks along the way. In our work, we get to "tick" off jobs quite often, so the sense of completion can also be rewarding.

  Mark Mason

  Jobs, Way, Tick

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.

  Brandi Carlile

  Writing, People, Feelings

  "A passion for helping people" by Paul Freeman, www.mercurynews.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for in enthusiasm. Most of the time when I called her name, she sprinted back, her long ears cocked and flying like a little girl's pigtails. Each encounter was a glorious reunion, even if we'd been parted for only a minute or two. I had never felt so loved.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Girl, Names, Two

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• In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

  Peter Straub

  Cities, Wings, Quality

  FaceBook post by Peter Straub from Nov 19, 2015

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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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• Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

  Mary Midgley

  Punishment, Patterns, Hubris

  Mary Midgley (2004). “The Myths We Live by”, p.104, Psychology Press

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• Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure, is the "right" one, is often determined by the structure of the system, the situation. There are requirements, structurally determined; there are possible in pure cases unambiguous decisions as to which completion does justice to the situation, which does not, which violates the requirements and the situation.

  Max Wertheimer

  Justice, Decision, Requirements

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• Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion they are looking for?  I do.  But when all things are made right, it won’t be because of some preacher or snake-oil salesman or politician or writer making promises in his book.  I think, instead, this will be done by Jesus.  And it will be at a wedding.  And there will be a feast.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Book, Thinking

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.206, Thomas Nelson

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