Finishing Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing 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.

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.

Shift often from openness to closure.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.