Finishing Quotes - Page 6

• Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Fall, Autumn, Light

  LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

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• Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

  Richard Carlson

  Motivational, Effective Listening, Waiting

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.

  Che Guevara

  Mean, Journey, Thinking

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• For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Michael Morpurgo (2014). “Private Peaceful”, p.128, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives? So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

  Clive Barker

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 19, 2013

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• At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion." ... My mother taught Prim and me to eat properly, so yes, I can handle a fork and knife. But I hate Effie Trinket's comment so much I make a point of eating the rest of my meal with my fingers. Then I wipe my hands on the tablecloth. This makes her purse her lips tightly together.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Couple, Hate

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• Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Kids, Class

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.53, New Society Publishers

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• Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

  David Allen

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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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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• How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as I live. There can be no thought of finishing, for 'aiming at the stars' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.

  Robert H. Goddard

  Stars, Years, Long

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• There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Thinking, Guy, Lasts

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• Im in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. Its always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, theyre going to carry me off a stage.

  Angela Lansbury

  Years, Able, Stage

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• The experience she gained should be invaluable to her continued growth and contribution to our team. In reality, compared to American players, she would just be finishing her college career.

  Mike Thibault

  Team, Player, Reality

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• Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing

  Ravi Zacharias

  Lifelong, Wells, Momentary

  Ravi Zacharias (2005). “I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Running, Media, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Marketing is a race without a finishing line

  Philip Kotler

  Race, Marketing, Lines

  Philip Kotler (2011). “Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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• I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work. It's the thing that I get the most satisfaction out of-nd probably what I do best. Not that I don't enjoy days off. I love vacations and loafing around. But I think much of the world has the wrong idea of working. It's one of the good things in life. The feeling of accomplishment is more real and satisfying than finishing a good meal- or looking at one's accumulated wealth.

  Jim Henson

  Real, Thinking, Vacation

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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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