Finishing Quotes

Marketing is a race without a finishing line

Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it's cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

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

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing

Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix; in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.

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

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

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

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

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

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

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

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

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

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

I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . . Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all.

I've changed a lot but I'm still Smitty. Hopefully I'm more mature and I'm a little wiser, and I plan on by the grace of God finishing well, and I'm more passionate than I ever have been in my life.

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Im in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. Its always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, theyre going to carry me off a stage.

Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.

I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.

The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

I was bangin’ 7 gram rocks and finishing them because that’s how I roll

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

Shift often from openness to closure.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.

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

It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!

I finished school, because I started when I was thirteen, so basically around 16 or 17, I just focused on finishing high school.

The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.

One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.

The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.

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

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.