Finishing Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.

The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.

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

Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.

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

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

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.

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

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

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

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.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

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

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

And then there is the magnificent Thierry Henry - someone who has blistering pace and is unbelievable when he is finishing at his best.

I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

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.

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

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.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.

Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

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

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

The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you.

My pictures really finish themselves.

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

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!

The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.

However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.

I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?

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.

I ran the L.A. marathon and really loved the experience. Communal and wild and a gigantic challenge. Finishing that marathon means I can do more than I think. I think.

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.

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.