Completing Quotes

#1. I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wallace Stevens that appropriates certain of his techniques.

David Lehman

#2. I know we were kids at Brown. But there's no one I've met before you, or since, who even came close to completing my heart. It's always been there for you, waiting for your love to finn in the nooks and crannies. (Drew)

Eva Charles

#3. I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad ... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.

Mohammed Omar

#4. You're talking about the whole 'completing each other' thing, and I hate that. It's such Hollywood bullshit. We don't complete each other - no two people do. We just highlight what's missing. We're just two incomplete people.

Stephen Emond

#5. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Ada Lovelace

#6. We all like to look forward to things. Incentivize yourself with a reward - a massage, dinner with a friend, a night watching your favorite show, a yoga class on Saturday morning. Visualizing a reward at the end of the to-do tunnel may help with reaching goals/completing tasks.

Samantha Ettus

#7. If we look at our work immediately after completing it, we are still too involved; if too long afterwards, we cannot pick up the thread again. It

Blaise Pascal

#8. We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

#9. If we want to live consciously, if we want to enjoy our life and not spend it simply completing the task of surviving, each of us must find answers to the questions concerning our destiny

Sunday Adelaja

#10. I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.

Kenneth Oppel

#11. During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

Al Franken

#12. When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.

Elena Ferrante

#13. Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

Peter B. Lewis

#14. Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you, must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. In fall 2007, I stood at the midway point of completing my undergraduate studies at Columbia. I studied every moment that I wasn't sitting in class. I was very focused on maintaining a solid GPA, so I could go on to law school.

Ray William Johnson

#16. I tend to over extend myself without really thinking throughthe realities of completing so many projects in a year, which generally means I'm going to be a little bit behind. I suppose that's the nature of the beast.

John Dyer Baizley

#17. Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.

Bob Mayer

#18. On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topic. My supervisor was Professor Harry Pitt, who was an excellent pure mathematician and probabilist.

Clive Granger

#19. When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.

John Otto

#20. We are here to finish God's labors ... so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

Harold S. Kushner

#21. Setting goals takes desire, but completing them takes determination

Ron Hawks

#22. Anybody who has traveled this far on a fool's errand," said Salo, "has no choice but to uphold the honor of fools by completing the errand.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#23. The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully.

Charles M. Schwab

#24. It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

Tennessee Williams

#25. aryaputra, a 'gentleman', and the aryaputri, a 'lady', a prototypical human partnership of two strong individuals, who didn't compete for exact equality but were complementary, completing each other. Two souls that were dependent on each other, giving each other purpose; two halves of a whole.

Amish Tripathi

#26. Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

Robert Stromberg

#27. I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.

William Labov

#28. Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

Lee Ellis

#29. I can't begin to describe how you've touched my heart. You've brought so much joy and happiness to my life. I never thought I would ever be able to love anyone as much as I do you. You've consumed my very being, completing my soul.

Trin Denise

#30. After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

Michael N. Castle

#31. Occasionally the three days will lapse without the FBI completing its background check. When that happens, a buyer, who has waited the three days, can purchase and pick up a gun without the completed background check. That's what

Antaeus

#32. Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.

Giorgio Agamben

#33. I had been born into a sort of democracy in which for ten years Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif kept replacing each other, none of their governments ever completing a term and always accusing each other of corruption.

Malala Yousafzai

#34. The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.

Brian Tracy

#35. Usually, I start thinking about my next novel soon after completing the latest, and it can take anywhere from a month to 6 months to come up with a story.

Nicholas Sparks

#36. competition could turn the most mundane task into a thrill, and that successfully completing a job - no matter how onerous - made me feel unaccountably happy.

Scott Jurek

#37. Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.

Maurice Nicoll

#38. In the evening of that day, after completing my preparations, I supped on the remaining portions of the sloth, not suitable for preservation, roasting bits of fat on the coals and boiling the head and bones into a broth; and after swallowing the liquid I crunched the bones and sucked the marrow ...

William Henry Hudson

#39. Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

Tertullian

#40. After sowing seeds in the soil and completing our various tasks, we need to be able to walk away without seeking to be noticed. We should not hold on to any expectations about witnessing the harvest.

M. Fethullah Gulen

#41. God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

John Milton

#42. The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.

Richard Gere

#43. Look at your trials and see grace. Behind those difficulties is an ever-present Redeemer who is completing his work.

Paul David Tripp

#44. When you use an excuse for not accomplishing something or not completing a project, you are actually giving power to someone or something outside of yourself.
Regardless of what happens today, absolutely refuse to use an excuse to get off the hook.

Bob Proctor

#45. Once taken off one task without completing the transaction, the mind continues to seek closure. Fight to stay focused on the task at hand.

Jeff Davidson

#46. Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

John Le Carre

#47. In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

Joseph Priestley

#48. Completing a large or difficult survey can be a very satisfying thing, especially if there have been hurdles or setbacks along the way. In our work, we get to "tick" off jobs quite often, so the sense of completion can also be rewarding.

Mark Mason

#49. Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#50. In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.

Paul Virilio

#51. Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.

David Deida

#52. You wanted hearts and flowers," he murmurs.
I blink at him, not quite believing what I'm seeing.
"You have my heart." And he waves toward the room.
"And here are the flowers," I whisper, completing his sentence. "Christian, it's lovely.

E.L. James

#53. Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Sherman Alexie

#55. I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Wayne Dyer

#56. While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.

Saint Ignatius

#57. For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught - nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

Herman Melville

#58. Realized it wasn't just someone completing him, it was the added compliment of having her near.

Rachel Van Dyken

#59. I had believed there was no such thing as redemption. I knew now I was wrong. Redemption had not come from grand gestures of dashing bravery. It had not come from successfully completing twelve impossible labors. Instead, redemption transpired from the small, quiet places.

Brodi Ashton

#60. Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

John Carmack

#61. I made a big entrance when I arrived in my flying DeLorean, which I'd obtained by completing a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis.

Ernest Cline

#62. To wake in some dawn and see / As though down a rifle barrel, lined up / Like sights, the self that was, the self that is, and there / Far off but in range, completing that alignment, your fate.

Robert Penn Warren

#63. Having three operational vehicles in the fleet affords the shuttle program great schedule flexibility as we move toward flying safely and completing the international space station.

Wayne Hale

#64. Completing a recovery session the day after a game is just as important. I like to go for a walk or a swim and have a stretch

Rebecca Bulley

#65. Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn't build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#66. I wanted to curse the maker for not completing the female cast with a delete slash purge button when it came to men.

Nicole Williams

#67. If I open my mouth
My word would be of love and hope
Tenderness completing me from inside out

Chimnese Davids

#68. When you slow down and focus on completing one task at a time, your life will automatically diversify.

Franklin Gillette

#69. I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

Oliver Sacks

#70. Jean Paul Sartre says that 'Hell is other people!' In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: 'Heaven is other people too!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#71. The single biggest time waster in the world is not completing what you start.

John Nance Garner

#72. For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

Sheldon B. Kopp

#73. By doing what you believe in you are halfway to completing your journey and already living your dream. Jason Nightingale 2014

Jason Nightingale

#74. It would be counterproductive to tell people exactly what they are supposed to do and exactly how they are supposed to do it to a point where they become more concerned about your expectations than about completing their work in a quality way.

Douglas Conant

#75. What Hollywood has done through the years is glamorized it even more, made it sexy, made it sensuous, and dwelled on those pleasure aspects, completing ignoring the fact that Hollywood as an industry, was pointing the gun at young people - pointing a gun at them when they were 12 to 14 years.

Joe Eszterhas

#76. A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

Cesare Pavese

#77. Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.

Eric Mann

#78. His final touches completed, His Highness offers me his arm. On Wednesdays I'm now required to enter the grand assembly in the Hall of Mirrors on his arm like a glowing trophy. Not the kind of trophy one wins for completing a challenge, the kind one stuffs and hangs on the wall after killing it.

Aprilynne Pike

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Andy Williams

#80. This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher(when asked about completing his income tax form)

Albert Einstein

#81. In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

Joe Scarborough

#82. The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.

Daniel Ionson

#83. Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn't know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process of elimination that I must be a Rush Limbaughian.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#84. One of the worst things that can happen to a man is for him to work and study hard in order to benefit others and make his own name and then be prevented by sickness, or perhaps death itself, from finally completing what he has begun

Giorgio Vasari

#85. I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.

Brian Jacques

#86. Conversion is not completing a ritual, it is commencing a relationship. The assurance of ritual is based on accurate words and memory. The assurance of relationship is based on a present posture of repentance and belief.

J.D. Greear

#87. I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.

Joe Abercrombie

#88. To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

John C. Maxwell

#89. As a kid, Terry Bradshaw didn't amaze me. My hero was Steelers backup Terry Hanratty, who nabbed two Super Bowl rings while completing three passes.

Stephen Rodrick

#90. Completing the work He assigns us-joyful obedience to His will-is the way we glorify Him. Through obedience, we reflect the glory of the glorious One.

Susan Hunt

#91. Physical activity is the single most efficient strategy for completing the stress response cycle and recalibrating your central nervous system into a calm state. When people say, 'Exercise is good for stress,' that is for realsie real.

Emily Nagoski

#92. Chronological living is a kind of lie. That's why I don't do it anymore. Existence doesn't have more meaning in one direction than it does in any other. Completing the days of your life in strict calendar order can feel forced. Arbitrary.

Charles Yu

#93. O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet,
Completing him not otherwise complete!
How void and useless the sad remnant left
Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

Abraham Coles

#94. Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

Alfie Kohn

#95. To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

Gloria Steinem

#96. For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.

Anurag Kashyap

#97. When you just cannot stop working. When completing this one project is all you can imagine.

Chuck Palahniuk

#98. Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer.

Elizabeth George

#99. Sometimes, it's worth living the dreams, tasks, hopes or ambitions of the people you love, however unjustifiable or stupid they may sound. Sometimes, it's worth completing what they stood up for. That is the best gift you can give to the people you love.

Sapan Saxena

#100. This isn't Sex and the City, and life isn't a Nicholas Sparks novel. The best kind of love is one that is calming on the spirit, easy on the heart, fulfilling and completing.

Hope Alcocer