Finished Quotes

• When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

  Anthony Romero

  Immigration, Prejudice, Experiments

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• It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you're finished changing, you're finished.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Change, Leadership, Inspiration

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• I finished a marathon.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Marathon

  "Date Lab: Election night is the perfect date night, right?". December 15, 2016, www.washingtonpost.com. Interview with Debra Bruno.

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• It's important to know that at the end of the day it's not the medals you remember. What you remember is the process -- what you learn about yourself by challenging yourself, the experiences you share with other people, the honesty the training demands -- those are things nobody can take away from you whether you finish twelfth or you're an Olympic Champion.

  Silken Laumann

  Softball, Sports, Running

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• The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished

  Frankie Knuckles

  Thinking, Minutes, Greater

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• When you are finished changing, you are finished.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Change, Changing The World, Continual Growth

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• Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, People, Way

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

  Ronald Reagan

  Faith, Race, Done

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at one after. I don't like them because there's a big gap between what you conceive in your mind when you're writing and you don't have to meet the test of reality. You're home, you write and it's funny and beautiful and romantic and dramatic, and then you have to show up on a cold morning, and you don't have enough of this and this goes wrong and you make the wrong choice on something and you screwed up and you can't go back.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Morning, Home

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome With Love". Press conference with Woody Allen, www.moviesonline.ca. June, 2012.

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• Even after many years, kata practice is never finished, for there is always something new to be learned about executing a movement.

  Shoshin Nagamine

  Years, Practice, Movement

  Shoshin Nagamine (2011). “Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do”, p.26, Tuttle Publishing

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• How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us? It is a miracle. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dream, Reading, Pride

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

  Joan M. Drury

  Writing, Century, Reaching

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• My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Fitness

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• If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.

  Andy Rooney

  Running, Wrestling, Remember

  Andy Rooney (2012). “Not That You Asked...”, p.13, Random House

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• I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.

  Victor Cruz

  Action, Type, Persons

  "Victor Cruz Tells Teens In New Book, ‘Out Of The Blue’, ‘If I Can Make It Out Of There, You Can Too’". Interview with Cindy Y. Rodriguez, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Motivation, Work, Half

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• What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Softball

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• I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Thinking, Boxing

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• Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

  Bobby Unser

  Nascar Racing, Guy, Remember

  Bobby Unser (2004). “Winners are Driven: A Champion's Guide to Success in Business and Life”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Ideas, Two

  Mark Twain (1966). “Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly.

  Sara Maitland

  Firsts, Jelly, Needs

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• Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

  Vu Tran

  Writing, Sometimes, Knows

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• I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Other Worlds, Long, Alive

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• Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.

  Christian Slater

  Book, Gains, Scripts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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