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• There was no let-up. The tempo was always moderate but steady. If a new guy decided to pick up the pace, that's where it stayed, whether he finished with the group or not. You showed off at your peril.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Running, Guy, Groups

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• A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Ballet, Fine

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• When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?'

  Robert Breault

  Life, Notebook, Son

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• In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years over their tasks, but one day they will finish what they are doing. Then they will stop, hemmed in by their own walls. Life becomes meaningless once the building is finished. Those who plant suffer the storms and the seasons and rarely rest. Unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And by its constant demands on the gardner's attentions, it makes of the gardener's life a great adventure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Wall, Attitude

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• A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it

  Pablo Picasso

  Mind, Done, Goes On

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• Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by a little piece of lead, like washing drying in the wind, like a whining of horses, like seed thrown to the birds, like an evening paper one has finished reading! Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.

  Louis Aragon

  Horse, Reading, Heart

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• Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Thinking, Progress, Humans

  "When Do We Become The Final Version of Ourselves?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Rez, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.

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• I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

  Greg LeMond

  Groups, Charity, Nine

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• I finished my career the way I wanted to.

  Michael Phelps

  Careers, Way, Wanted

  "With One Last Gold, Phelps Caps Career That Inspired a Generation" by Karen Crouse, www.nytimes.com. August 4, 2012.

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• A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Back When, Painting, Made

  Howard Hodgkin, Enrique Juncosa, Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland), Tate Britain (Gallery), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2006). “Writers on Howard Hodgkin”, Tate

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• When you see athletes like me win gold medals, you only see the finished product, you dont see the real effort that the likes of Ron have put into making that product. Without the Ron Roddans of this world, you would have no sport.

  Linford Christie

  Sports, Real, Athlete

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• When Jesus cried, 'It is finished!' He was not speaking of the plan of redemption. There were still three days and nights to go through before He went to the throne...Jesus' death on the cross was only the beginning of the complete work of redemption.

  Kenneth Copeland

  Jesus, Night, Three

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• A painting that is well composed is half finished.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Art, Half, Architecture

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• People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

  Octavia Butler

  Giving Up, Writing, Persistence

  Octavia E. Butler (2011). “Bloodchild and Other Stories”, p.148, Seven Stories Press

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• To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  Emil Zatopek

  Stupid, Mean, Vanity

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• What has passed is already finished with.
  What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  Emil Zatopek

  Interesting, Boast, Stills

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• As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

  David Dinkins

  School, Law, Matter

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• I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

  David Dinkins

  Jobs, School, Law

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• An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

  John Singer Sargent

  Artist, Men, Should Have

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• We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.

  Terence McKenna

  Museums, Perception, World

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• A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

  Rembrandt

  Artist, Painting

  "The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France". Book by Alison MacQueen, 2003.

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• Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there was nothing big enough to exempt you from your obligations, which began as soon as the sun rose over the paper company and ended only after you'd finished the day's chores and fell exhausted into sleep against the background noise of I-94.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Passion, Sleep, Men

  Bonnie Jo Campbell (2009). “American Salvage: Stories”, p.35, Wayne State University Press

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• Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Animal, Men, Excellence

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Writing, Secret

  "Found in Translation". www.nytimes.com. October 2, 2010.

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• Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Hope, Jesus

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