Finished Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasnt the case. I struggled.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Winning, Years, Would Be

  Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Son, Ideas, House

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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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• I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

  Tracy Chapman

  Talking, Records

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• I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Long, World, Trends

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• ...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me in the direction of spiritual activity...And then it was disclosed to me that I could do both spiritual and musical work. So for five years I executed that contract, and when it was finished, after I made the album Transfiguration, I didn't make another album until twenty-six years later. This new album, Translinear Light, came out of the pleading and constant appealing from my son Ravi Coltrane: 'Ma, please make a CD.' So I eventually agreed.

  Alice Coltrane

  Music, Spiritual, Son

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• I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

  Ahmad Jamal

  Music, Jazz, Scholar

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• This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Pride, Awards, Joy

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• I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Letting Go, Struggle

  Rowan Williams (2007). “Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• There is hope for me yet
  Because God won't forget
  All the plans he's made for me
  I have to wait and see
  He's not finished with me yet

  Brandon Heath

  Waiting, Forget, Made

  Song: Wait And See, Album: What If We, 2008

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• It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.

  Terry Fox

  Hurt, Hands, People

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• I had just finished a run of shows in the States and went to NY to work with BenZel for a couple weeks, mainly as a different focus to touring. I didn't have any expectations or pressures with what would come out of those two weeks, and think 'Tough Love' sums this up. It was me experimenting with my voice and having fun with it. It just felt right and kind of dictated the route of the next album, much like 'Devotion' did on my first album

  Jessie Ware

  Running, Couple, Fun

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• It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released

  Mick Taylor

  Years, Cds, These Days

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• Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do.

  Marguerite Henry

  Dream, Book, Character

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• I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

  Frank Auerbach

  Order, Rework, Recalls

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• I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Writing, Years

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• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  Gay Talese

  Writing, Thinking, Turns

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.

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• Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thinking, Goal, Saint

  "The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery".

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• I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Fun, Reading, Book

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• By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.

  Bill Bryson

  Rain, Coffee, Thinking

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.279, Random House

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• I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Husband, Father, Character

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• Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Character, Simple

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• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  Abraham Polonsky

  Holiday, Long, Celebrate Life

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