Finished Quotes - Page 36

• A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

  W. H. Auden

  Artist, Craftsman, Results

  "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("A Poet of the Actual"), (p. 265), 1973.

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• When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it.

  W. S. Merwin

  Moving, Mean, Can't Change

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. June 26, 2009.

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• I want to send a very clear message to the men and women who are wearing - or who have worn - our country's uniform and to their spouses: when you have finished your service to our nation, you've got 2,000 great American companies ready and waiting to bring you on board

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Men, Waiting

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• Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Ideas, Track

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.611, Penguin

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• Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Justice, Done

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus”, p.205, Editora Dracaena

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• The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.

  Rosita Forbes

  Travel, Journey, Rivers

  Rosita Forbes (1935). “From Red Sea to Blue Nile: a thousand miles of Ethiopia”

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• I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Running, Strong Women, Heart

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• You feel good while you're running and you feel even better when you're finished.

  Fred Lebow

  Running, Feel Good, Feels

  Fred Lebow (1994). “New York Road Runners Club Complete Book of Running”, Random House Reference

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• Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

  Philip Pullman

  Suspense, Stories, Love Story

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• We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

  T. D. Jakes

  Giving, Grace, Want

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• I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

  Oliver Sacks

  Dying, Faces, Face To Face

  Oliver Sacks (2015). “Gratitude”, p.5, Pan Macmillan

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• Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Book, Writing, Ought

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.123, Book House

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• One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.

  William Segal

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Redemption, Creation

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• When you die, i.e., when your physical body is finished with this earth ... and your astral entity goes on to the astral world ... it has to stand alone and answer for successes and failures.

  Lobsang Rampa

  Answers, Goes On, World

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• Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

  Emile Hirsch

  Talking, Brokeback Mountain, Remember

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• I always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished... it is not as if you can look back and think: ah... I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be.

  Ben Whishaw

  Jobs, Struggle, Dark

  "Ben Whishaw: 'I feel I'm always in the dark' - interview". Interview With Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'

  John Oliver

  Thinking, Let It Go, Tvs

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• Hillary Clinton has finished writing her book where she says her marriage couldn't be stronger, and Bill just finished his book titled 'Chicks I Nailed While Hillary was Writing Her Book.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Book, Writing, Stronger

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• Location work has its charms, and can seem glamorous on the outside, but I think living at home and having the stability of a home life once you've finished work is very underrated!

  Saffron Burrows

  Home, Thinking, Location

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• I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

  Miley Cyrus

  Song, Writing, Sleep

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• You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

  Colin Quinn

  Funny, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 18, 2003.

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• Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Stupid, Hate, Perfect

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• These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.

  C. B. Cebulski

  Jobs, Comic Book, Break

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• The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is just finished. You have to trust your inner voice, your instincts, when they tell you pencils down. And you roll up your sleeves and you start over again.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Art, School, Years

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