Finishing Quotes - Page 4

• 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 say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

  Claude Monet

  Arrogant, Canvas, Claims

  Claude Monet (1983). “Claude Monet at the time of Giverny”

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• While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.

  Claude Monet

  Might, Painting, Harder

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

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• It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.

  Claude Monet

  Difficult, Carried Away

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• I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.

  Charles Sheeler

  Journey, Battle, Trying

  Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Art Institute of Chicago, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (2006). “Charles Sheeler: across media”, University of California Press

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• The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

  John C. Maxwell

  Discipline, Decision, Helping

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• Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

  Pliny the Younger

  Artist, Painting, Unfinished

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• Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.

  Marie Forleo

  Mean, Creative, Habit

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2015

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• To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

  Will Graham

  Blessing, Grandfather, Dying

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• Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

  Peter Gabriel

  Way, Deadline

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• Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race.

  Marc Mero

  Winning, Race, Life Is

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• For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.

  Grete Waitz

  Success, Sports, Lonely

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• The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.

  Peter Drucker

  Running, Organization, People

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.94, Transaction Publishers

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• If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Nfl, Starting

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• He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

  Sherman Alexie

  Hard Work, Tasks, Realizing

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• Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in finishing my work with a very relaxed state of mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on weekdays that aren’t there on weekends. If I wake up early in the morning before anybody else, I can plan the day or at least my activities with relaxed mind.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Morning, Weekend, Up Early

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• Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.

  Gianni Versace

  Men, Personality, Missing

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• There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.

  Kurt Busch

  Inspirational, Car, Victory

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• Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't chop down trees to make a book that no one will read.

  Conan O'Brien

  Book, Tree, Als

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• At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

  Edwyn Collins

  Hands, Ducks, Left Hand

  Source: www.vice.com

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• After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft on a computer. Usually that involves expansion: filling in and adding to, but trying not to lose the spontaneous, direct sound. I use that first draft as a touchstone to make sure everything else in that section has the same sound, the same tone and impression of spontaneity.

  Kent Haruf

  Writing, Two, Long

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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 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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• I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Years, Way

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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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