Finished Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate, and the subjects that I am trying to describe and discuss are beyond my abilities. I am trying, however, the best I can, and will go back over this as carefully as possible when I am finished, and will make changes and corrections whenever I can see a way to make what I'm discussing clearer or more interesting without fabricating anything.

  David Foster Wallace

  Interesting, Intellectual, Trying

  "All That" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. December 14, 2009.

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• There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

  Francis Drake

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Yield

  Dispatch to Sir Francis Walsingham, 17 May 1587, in 'Navy Records Society' vol. 11 (1898) p.134

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• Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teaching, Learning, Today

  Carol Ann Tomlinson (2014). “The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, 2nd Edition”, p.10, ASCD

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• The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him.

  Joseph Stowell

  Christian, Running, Unique

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• If I upset you, don't stress. Never forget
  That God isn't finished with me yet.
  I feel His hand on my brain...
  When I write rhymes, I go blind and let the Lord do His thang.

  Tupac Shakur

  Stress, Rap, Writing

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• At home we've played very bad. That's the reality. We finished good, but we had problems at home.

  Andres Nocioni

  Home, Reality, Problem

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• Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

  H. R. Giger

  Reality, Ideas, People

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• Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete me!" There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, "What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete - fulfill me!"

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• Everybody wants the easy stuff, "Okay, I wanna be a rapper. I wish I could fight in order to get more money." They see the finished product, they see this guy Derek Jeter hitting the homerun and whatnot and say "Ooh, I wanna make $20 million a year," but they didn't see him playing sandlot ball.

  Mr. T

  Fighting, Rapper, Order

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Ballet, Fine

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• When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'

  Robert Breault

  Life, Notebook, Son

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• I finished my career the way I wanted to.

  Michael Phelps

  Careers, Way, Wanted

  "With One Last Gold, Phelps Caps Career That Inspired a Generation" by Karen Crouse, www.nytimes.com. August 4, 2012.

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• A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Back When, Painting, Made

  Howard Hodgkin, Enrique Juncosa, Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland), Tate Britain (Gallery), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2006). “Writers on Howard Hodgkin”, Tate

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• When Jesus cried, 'It is finished!' He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. There were still three days and nights to go through before He went to the throne...Jesus' death on the cross was only the beginning of the complete work of redemption.

  Kenneth Copeland

  Jesus, Night, Three

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• A painting that is well composed is half finished.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Art, Half, Architecture

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• To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  Emil Zatopek

  Stupid, Mean, Vanity

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• What has passed is already finished with.
  What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  Emil Zatopek

  Interesting, Boast, Stills

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• I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

  David Dinkins

  Jobs, School, Law

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• An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

  John Singer Sargent

  Artist, Men, Should Have

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• Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Animal, Men, Excellence

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Writing, Secret

  "Found in Translation". www.nytimes.com. October 2, 2010.

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• This silly world outside thinks it is finished with Jesus Christ but they haven't even started with Him yet.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Silly, Thinking

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• In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

  Roger Waters

  Moving, Important, Articles

  "Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii". Documentary, Music, 1972.

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• After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

  Tracy Chapman

  Inspiration, Path, Sometimes

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