Finishing Quotes

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

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Way
  • Deadline
  • Finishing

• 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 Cinema
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Sometimes

• The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • World
  • Difficult
  • Finishing

• Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Important
  • Racing
  • Finishing

• When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Book
  • Clock
  • Finishing

• I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Judged

• Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Life
  • Good
  • Ideas

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

  

  Machado de Assis
  • Dream
  • Lines
  • Finishing

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

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Realizing
  • Joyous
  • Completing

• 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.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Time
  • Found
  • Gone

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

  

  Euripides
  • Plan
  • Finishing
  • Ventures

• The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Wonder
  • Enjoy
  • Victory

• The way I write, I work on a song, and I don’t really force myself to finish it. I finish it when I feel like finishing it. I’ve got dozens of songs going at once. That’s the way I preserve my happiness in writing: by doing it because I want to do it, not because I’m trying to finish a job.

  

  John McCrea Cake
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Finishing

• It started as a hobby when I was a kid, and I'm finishing as a hobby.

  

  Dick Trickle
  • Kid
  • Hobby
  • Finishing

• I guess that's a big problem with working with computers - you've got the luxury to keep tweaking the songs until the last second and beyond. So I don't think I'll ever have that feeling, unless I'm the one finishing the track.

  

  David Macklovitch
  • Feeling
  • Problem
  • Computers

• 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.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Impression
  • Details
  • Infinite

• I'll carry the torch until it needs to be passed. Hopefully, God willing, I plan on finishing my career here, if it be this year or maybe next year.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • God
  • Career
  • Finishing

• For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find hard.But I love finishing it,then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Book
  • Dream
  • Hands

• You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.

  

  Gerard Houllier
  • Team
  • Years
  • Soccer

• They have to worry about finishing ahead of me. I have to just finish ahead of them. At this point of the season, you don't think what might happen or keep track of the points; you just go for it, and that is what we are planning right now.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Worry
  • Planning
  • Might

• If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

  

  Rolf Harris
  • Looking
  • Smiling
  • Finishing

• I knew coming into this year that the difference between finishing third and finishing eighth was going to be a bad weekend. I think that's playing out.

  

  Andy Kennedy
  • Year
  • Weekend
  • Finishing

• Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.

  

  David Wright
  • Losing
  • Finishing
  • Connotations

• Part of me regrets not finishing college.

  

  Daryl Palumbo
  • College
  • Regrets
  • Finishing

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