Finished Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• As soon as we finished filming, I felt like I had been woken up from a magical dream and had to pinch myself to remember that it was real. Every scene is now a blur. I feel like I will be watching it for the first time with the rest of the world. I am nervous. But excited.

  Lucy Fry

  Dream, Real, World

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• Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and enjoyable for one reader as the next. But novels and other book-length narratives are great rambling things that always contain some flaws. For works of any length, there comes a point when your continued tinkering won't improve the whole, but will just trade one set of problems for another.

  Bruce Holland Rogers

  Art, Book, Perfect

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• As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

  Marc Almond

  Europe, Projects

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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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• They hadn't even gotten their first paychecks yet, ... My biggest thing was giving them a sense of reality and what costs would be. We outlined costs and a budget, and by the time we finished they said they could take maybe one vacation a year. They started to understand reality versus their dreams.

  Ron Pearson

  Dream, Reality, Vacation

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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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• I think it affected me physically and emotionally, yes. I did have my ups and downs, but I actually had more ups and downs after the shots were finished and she was pregnant because of the reality of being pregnant with twins.

  Cheryl Tiegs

  Pregnancy, Thinking, Reality

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• The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

  L. Bruce Archer

  Design, Calling, Done

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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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• I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished.

  Jean Alesi

  Retirement, Guy, Achieve

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• There was no let-up. The tempo was always moderate but steady. If a new guy decided to pick up the pace, that's where it stayed, whether he finished with the group or not. You showed off at your peril.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Running, Guy, Groups

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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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• In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years over their tasks, but one day they will finish what they are doing. Then they will stop, hemmed in by their own walls. Life becomes meaningless once the building is finished. Those who plant suffer the storms and the seasons and rarely rest. Unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And by its constant demands on the gardner's attentions, it makes of the gardener's life a great adventure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Wall, Attitude

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• A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it

  Pablo Picasso

  Mind, Done, Goes On

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• Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by a little piece of lead, like washing drying in the wind, like a whining of horses, like seed thrown to the birds, like an evening paper one has finished reading! Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.

  Louis Aragon

  Horse, Reading, Heart

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• Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Thinking, Progress, Humans

  "When Do We Become The Final Version of Ourselves?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Rez, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.

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• I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

  Greg LeMond

  Groups, Charity, Nine

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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 you see athletes like me win gold medals, you only see the finished product, you dont see the real effort that the likes of Ron have put into making that product. Without the Ron Roddans of this world, you would have no sport.

  Linford Christie

  Sports, Real, Athlete

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