Finishing Quotes - Page 5

• 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, Dimes

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• We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.

  Harville Hendrix

  Relationship, Childhood, Purpose

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• The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.

  Genghis Khan

  Success, Lying, Finishing It

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• I write one step at a time, always finishing off the part I'm working on before even thinking about the next part. I need to hear it all together before deciding what goes next. I even mix before moving on...in other words, I write by recording.

  Zach Condon

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

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• O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.

  William James

  Philosophy, Real, Book

  William James (1961). “Selected Letters”

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• The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come.

  Lawrence Kudlow

  Years, Alive, Splendid

  "The Recession Debate Is Over" by Lawrence Kudlow, kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.ru. December 5, 2007.

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• The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist.  The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . .  Fear is what blocks an artist.  The fear of not being good enough.  The fear of not finishing.  The fear of failure and of success.  The fear of beginning at all.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Block, Needs

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• It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

  David Brainerd

  Yield, Acting, Missionary

  David Brainerd (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: From the Honourable Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge; who Died at Northampton in New England, Oct. 9, 1747 ...”, p.242

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• Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing—and finishing—a novel is a great thing in itself, whether or not the book is published, or becomes widely-read or not.

  Garth Nix

  Book, Writing, Validation

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• I don't want to look too far ahead. The journey is what's happening right now, not what's on the finishing line.

  Sabirul Islam

  Journey, Entrepreneur, Looks

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• It started as a hobby when I was a kid, and I'm finishing as a hobby.

  Dick Trickle

  Kids, Hobbies

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• You have to practice success. Success doesn't just show up. If you aren't practicing success today, you won't wake up in 20 years and be successful, because you won't have developed the habits of success, which are small things like finishing what you start, putting a lot of effort into everything you do, being on time, treating people well.

  Michelle Obama

  Successful, Years, Practice

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• Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

  Mario Batali

  Lasts, Tiny, Seconds

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• You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Should Have, Oil, Cooking

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• Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at something, but rather who embraces lowliness of heart. Laying down one's rights- meekness- is a blessed virtue, one that must surely come straight from the Throne of Grace.

  Beverly Lewis

  Blessed, Heart, Rights

  Beverly Lewis (2016). “The Abram's Daughters Collection: Five Novels in One”, p.589, Baker Books

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• The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Writing, Finishing It

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• Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

  Richard Peck

  School, Finishing School

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• It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Moving Forward, Inspiration

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• And then when she takes him through the whole wine tasting process, finishing with a long, languid taste that she really enjoyed “she opened her eyes and saw Nick staring at her. “I feel like I need a cigarette and a shower after watching that.

  Julie James

  Wine, Eye, Long

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• When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going blehblehbleh all the time. Everything quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow. It's jus time and the movement and the motion.That's what love--just being a barbarian, running through the woods.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Things In Life, Long

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• Quietly Sophronia added, "And the soot on my dress, sir?" "I didn't see anything." Professor Braithwope smiled down at her, showing a small hint of fang. Sophronia grinned back. "I'm glad we understand each other, sir." The vampire looked out into the night. "This is the right finishing school for you, isn't it, whot?" "Yes sir, I think it might very well be." "A piece of advice, Miss Temminnick?" "Sir?" "It is a great skill to have friends in low places. They, too, have things to teach you." "Now, sir, I thought you didn't see any soot.

  Gail Carriger

  School, Night, Thinking

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• Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.

  David Wright

  Negative, Lasts, Losing

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• Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Light, Vegetables, Play

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• Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

  Quintilian

  Virtue, Finishing Touches

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• Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Drinking, Writing, Stories

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