Top 100 Quotes About Completion
#1. Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.
Wang Yangming
#2. Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.
Jan Struther
#3. Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.
Hugh Howey
#4. Just Keep Writing! Who cares if it's a Saturday, or if you left your laptop at home, or if you're around people? Just write one word, one line, jot down one idea. No matter how little you write, it's movement in the right direction. Forward. Toward completion.
Tammy Ferebee
#5. It is no blasphemy to say that every man creates the God creating him. We are facets of a work whose finished form we cannot imagine, though our imaginations, aided by grace, are the means - or at least one means - of its completion.
Christian Wiman
#6. Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.
Sarah Lewis
#7. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.
Paulo Freire
#8. Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation.
David Gross
#9. For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
Carol Bellamy
#10. It is a long road from conception to completion.
Moliere
#11. The ecstasy and completion of absorption in God is so fantastic that you can't possibly have lost anything because all the things you've always loved and always experienced came forth from there and exist there and are always there.
Frederick Lenz
#12. Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
Adyashanti
#13. Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.
Steven Pressfield
#14. Through intense self-examination and ceaseless selfchallenge, create change, and adjust your track toward growth and completion.
Ilchi Lee
#15. Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.
H. Richard Niebuhr
#16. Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered material, hope in an industrial-strength mixer.
Mark Kingwell
#17. The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not to be confused with perfection.
Patricia Hickman
#18. A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.
Zhuangzi
#19. You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
John Calvin
#20. In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that
Anonymous
#21. I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
Bob Graham
#22. VISIONEERING = INSPIRATION + CONVICTION + ACTION + DETERMINATION + COMPLETION
Andy Stanley
#23. A dreamer must be discovered working or working on it or it is reduced to a wish.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#24. I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.
Erica Jong
#25. On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.
Leon Jouhaux
#26. I'm forever BECOMING. I'll never be complete, because completion is death ...
Stacy Barthe
#27. As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
Erykah Badu
#28. The word 'algebra' derives from Al-Khawarizmi's book title "al-jabr", meaning "completion"; balancing both sides to find a solution
Firas Alkhateeb
#29. Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.
Vincent De Paul
#30. Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.
Todd Phillips
#31. I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.
Charlie Kaufman
#32. They have been having sex for eighteen months now (he realizes he has to make himself stop counting, as if his sexual life is a prison term, and he is working toward its completion).
Hanya Yanagihara
#33. How can man become complete? From the world's point of view, he will become Truth when he eliminates his false world and false self.
Woo Myung
#34. Even if you know where you are going and what problems you have to solve, you may only know the nearest tasks and you may not understand completely all of your tasks
Sunday Adelaja
#35. The chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
#36. Is this want of strength provided for in the plan of salvation? It is. The work of the Lord is perfect. It begins where we are, and asks nothing of us in order to its completion.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#37. Yearn to grow in the field of love and bliss not in the field of competition and contemplation.
Debasish Mridha
#38. In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.
Mitch Glazer
#39. JUNE 22 I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6 Our glorious walk with God began with an act of faith that brought us into relationship with Jesus Christ as our Savior, but it doesn
Beth Moore
#40. Popular success is a palace built for a writer by publishers, journalists, admirers, and professional reputation makers, in which a silent army of termites, rats, dry rot, and death-watch beetles are tunnelling away, till, at the very moment of completion, it is ready to fall down.
Cyril Connolly
#41. There is no such thing as completion. These are only stages in an endless progression. There are no final outcomes or decisions, since nothing ever stays the same.
Frederick Lenz
#42. Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don't seek to become free or desire or "achieve" enlightenment. Become present.
Eckhart Tolle
#43. Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
Confucius
#44. proudly. "One of the most dangerous assumptions we tend to repeatedly make is that of final achievement. There is never final achievement One Like Jade. There is completion within cycles, which only leads us to another set of cycles at a slightly higher level.
Denise Le Fay
#45. When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Greg Anderson
#46. In the spirit of the Alpha and the Omega, in the way the Alpha was the
Omega, and vice versa, he knew the beginning was also the end - and that the end was just another beginning.
Sol Luckman
#47. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," still known as Parkinson's Law.
Bill Bryson
#48. After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.
Dan Simmons
#49. Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Jack Welch
#50. Jiu Jitsu gives me an ideal to strive toward. Technical mastery lies on an infinite continuum and completion of this skill is impossible. Every time I train I have something that I can improve upon, and this will hold true for each and every training session that lies between me and my grave.
Chris Matakas
#51. Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
Ernie Fletcher
#52. Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
E. M. Forster
#53. Always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.
Everlost
Neal Shusterman
#54. Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#55. Today's "issue" had come all the way down from the System level, where some pinhead wanted to tie each campus's funding directly to its graduation rates.
Mark Panek
#56. Dimidium facti qui coepit habet: sapere aude" ("He who has begun is half done: dare to know!").
Horace
#57. My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.
George A Tice
#58. We hope for sympathy in a violent, damning, world, all that we've known and experienced in real life - as opposed to phantom memory. We long for confirmation and completion and justification - and we also long to survive and learn that our reckless existence has meaning.
Greg Bear
#59. The wolf inside him prowled and preened, eager to finish the mating and mount to completion. The man wanted to fuck her hard against the wall and then twice more against the counter and bed just because he could
Carrie Ann Ryan
#60. Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.
Richard P. Feynman
#61. The men who began their life's work on [the cathedrals], they never lived to see the completion of their work.
Raymond Carver
#63. Video Games Rewards of the self are a defining component in video games, as players seek to master the skills needed to pursue their quest. Leveling up, unlocking special powers, and other game mechanics fulfill a player's desire for competency by showing progression and completion.
Nir Eyal
#64. Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.
Barack Obama
#65. Truth and effort may increase human worth
But they are not enough to make us whole;
Only love can complete us.
Ilchi Lee
#66. So many people who wanted no part of all this. That's what's new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that's over. Completion is the end. We're closing the circle around everyone - it's a totalitarian nightmare.
Dave Eggers
#67. Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.
Frederick Lenz
#69. When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.
Andre Previn
#70. Writing is hard. That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right to be immensely proud when you finish something.
[There Is No Such Thing as Writers' Block: Blog post, October 7, 2001]
Andy Ihnatko
#71. Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity, periods reaching completion, pressures reaching the bursting point, and the simple but painful cultivation of awareness.
Robert Grudin
#72. I have not given it [synagogue] up. Christianity is the completion of the synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise, and Christianity is the fulfillment of that promise.
Israel Zolli
#73. We all count the hours. We all look for completion, even if we fear it. We long to be consumed. I long to be consumed.
Clive Barker
#74. My passion for human ecology was not a drive for closure - but rather the joy of endless openings and newfound connections. There is no final goal or perfect completion, only the expanding experience of being alive.
Richard J. Borden
#75. I've pressed so
far away from
my desire that
if you asked
me what I
want I would,
accepting the harmonious
completion of the
drift, say annihilation,
probably.
A.R. Ammons
#76. Each and every prayer is a tiny piece of a great cosmic puzzle, which when fitted together will allow for the completion of the grand picture of the Almighty Lord's plan for humanity and the universe.
Jason Mandryk
#77. Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of such a practice tells your mind and body that the day's work is over and you are free to relax and sleep.
Andrew Weil
#78. He ... told me
that which is incomplete, seek completion. Yet ... that which is complete, is no better than which is incomplete. Do you understand? Do you know ... what that means?
Yukiru Sugisaki
#79. You have to develop your whole game to completion.
Isaiah Thomas
#80. The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.
Brian Christian
#81. I won a scholarship to come to LA and compete in a modeling and talent completion and was amazed when I won it. I had never acted before in my life and won the acting category. I began to wonder what this is about and then decided to see what happened.
Eva Longoria
#82. What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us.
Jon Foreman
#83. Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.
Mary Midgley
#84. Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
Earl Warren
#85. The happiest days of our lives [are] days such as this when one's work [begins] to reach fruition and to assume the contours of its imminent completion.
(A. Herzbruch, in A Murder at Dragon Bay)
Steven William Lawrie
#86. There are three qualities that make someone a true professional. These are the ability to work unsupervised, the ability to certify the completion of a job or task and, finally, the ability to behave with integrity at all times.
Subroto Bagchi
#87. In addition to thinking aloud about your processing of text, plan to show students how you respond to the completion of an organizer or write a constructed response.
Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins
#88. Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.
Whitley Strieber
#89. The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .
Terry Bradshaw
#90. When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#91. You are infinite intelligence, creativity and Energy-Consciousness which gives you the power and wisdom to attain fulfillment and completion in life.
Ilchi Lee
#92. When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.
Vironika Tugaleva
#93. No person, relationship, or religion should complete you. They can enhance whatever is already there, but completion of the self comes from within, not from anything beyond that.
Pamela Morris
#94. A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.
Benjamin Watson
#95. College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
Hank Johnson
#96. We laugh, we sing, we dance, we love, we hate, we triumph and strive for joys that turn to ashes in the mouth, and all the time the divine phenomenon of life is working out its completion beneath those shadowy appearances of things real.
Anonymous
#97. Writers of memoir are storytellers, and the point of a personal story is to make a truth that resonates for you, that closes the experience around a narrative and brings it to completion.
Lisa Dale Norton
#98. Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
Dean Inge
#99. The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.
Socrates
#100. Instead of delaying long-term goals with an attitude I will do it one day, one should have an approach to act now. Divide the time span into smaller units and reward yourself on their completion. This will keep you motivated and surely work as a magic
Ankit Singh
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