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• Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

  Eberhard Arnold

  Children, Mind, Tasks

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• The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disappointment, Wish, Pleasure

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.116

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• The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.

  Park Chan-wook

  Revenge, Exacting Revenge, Process

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• If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.

  Esther Hicks

  Two, Temptation, Duress

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• Faith causes changes. Anytime there is change, there is opportunity, including the opportunity to fail. But failing can be a step toward completion of a goal. You can fail your way to success.

  Paula White

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Goal

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• I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's not where you'll find your sense of completion.

  Jim Carrey

  Dream, People, Realizing

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• The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Nice, Standards, Available

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• BEAUTY will result from the form and correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each other, and of these again to the whole; that the structure may appear an entire and compleat body, wherein each member agrees with the other, and all necessary to compose what you intend to form.

  Andrea Palladio

  Beauty, Respect, Body

  "The Four Books of Architecture".

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• If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.

  Beth Moore

  Jesus, Giving, Tasks

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• I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

  Edvard Munch

  Should Have, Rooms, Accommodations

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• The road is long fro the project to its completion.

  Moliere

  Long, Projects

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• Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

  Sterling W Sill

  Motivational, Successful, Life Is

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• As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.

  Erykah Badu

  Hair, People, Style

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• Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

  Earl Warren

  Towers, World, Bells

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• For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, School, Law

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• I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

  Tobias Wolff

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.

  Brian Christian

  Writing, Fighting, Swimming

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2010.

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• Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

  Hugh Howey

  Book, Bored, Twelve

  "Hugh Howey Interview Part 1: Science Fiction, Indie Writing, And Success". Interview with Eric Wecks, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth. We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fashion, Lying, Men

  "Empowerment Of Women Speech" by Yasmin Mogahed, www.yasminmogahed.com. December 12, 2011.

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• Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Wise, Goal, Territory

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• Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Ambitious, Projects, Optimist

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Ideas, Quests

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.

  Arthur Fry

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

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• My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.

  George A Tice

  Photography, Book, Mean

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• The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.

  William McFee

  Art, Done, Pleasure

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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