Finishing Quotes - Page 3

• Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Waiting, Trying, Lifetime

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Knows, Finished

  "What kind of genius are you?" by Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

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• Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

  Robert Breault

  Painting, Obvious, Incomplete

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• The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon.

  Fred Lebow

  Running, Dream, Drama

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• To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Mean, Blow

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• One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Order, Littles, Painting

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• They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

  Olive Schreiner

  Education, School, Names

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

  Pliny the Younger

  Too Much

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• I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

  Claude Monet

  Impossible, Painting, Feels

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Race, Racing, Important

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• The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Pain, Pride

  Hal Higdon (2005). “Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide”, p.347, Rodale

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• Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

  William Feather

  Book, Good Friend, Leaving

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Technology, Computer

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• When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Flower, Men

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• Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.

  Phil Collins

  Albums, Film, Projects

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• Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

  Truman Capote

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.

  Meir Kahane

  Israel, Years, Growth

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• Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Complaining, Politics, Olympics

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• I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Jobs, Years, Long

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• I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Males, Firsts

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• The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, World, Difficult

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• If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

  Stan Smith

  Drawing, Should, Ifs

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• Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

  Henri Matisse

  Bored, Mind, Sitting

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 410, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.

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• I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.

  John Marin

  Sides, Boat, Boundaries

  John Marin (1949). “Selected Writings”

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