Finishing Quotes

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  Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Hands

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

  John Bingham

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

  Jacob Collins

  Anxiety, Glimpse, Littles

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• Shift often from openness to closure.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Closure, Openness

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• The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.

  Philip Guston

  Links, Canvas, Unending

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• My pictures really finish themselves.

  Howard Hodgkin

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• The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.

  John Berger

  Reality, Impossible, Mature

  John Berger (2014). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.158, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Design

  "Neil Gaiman’s Advice to Aspiring Writers" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. September 11, 2013.

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• Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Book, Writing, Secret

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• A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

  Ted Godwin

  Would Be, Done, Painting

  Ted Godwin, Luther Pokrant (2002). “The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual”, p.40, University of Regina Press

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• When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Finishing It, Finishing Up

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• When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Mean Girls, Beautiful, Sports

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• We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.

  Judith Wright

  Life, Simple, People

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• There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

  Gene Tierney

  Sometimes, Layoff

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Military, War, Fall

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

  Dean Cain

  Breathing

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

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• The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

  Carter G. Woodson

  College, People, Majority

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.2, Book Tree

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• I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

  Taryn Manning

  Focus, Crossroads, Fronts

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• Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Appreciation, Play, Different

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• I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.

  Trevor Rabin

  Writing, Done, Want

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• In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Track, Looks, Wake Up

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• We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.

  Donal Logue

  Dvds, Silence, Deals

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• I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

  Mary Wesley

  Mother, School, Science

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• I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.

  Michel Patini

  Football, Running, Player

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• The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

  Franz Halder

  Army, Enemy, Left

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