Quotes About Seeing Things Through To The End

#1. But the greatest battle of all is with yourself - your weaknesses, your emotions, your lack of resolution in seeing things through to the end. You must declare unceasing war on yourself.

Robert Greene

#2. It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.

Seth Godin

#3. THE FIRST FEW WORDS of every story are always the hardest to write. It's almost as if pulling them out, putting them on paper, commits you to seeing it all through. As if once you start, you are required to finish. And how do you finish when some things never end?

Amy Harmon

#4. I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.

Patricia Highsmith

#5. At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.

Julianne Moore

#6. Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes

Meg Rosoff

#7. I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.

Jeff Bridges

#8. There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

Don Tapscott

#9. I'm happier than a camel on Wednesday.

Georgia Cates

#10. Your little kindness made the whole world my enemy, but I am not scared.

M.F. Moonzajer

#11. Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.

Emily Dickinson

#12. When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

Christian Kane

#13. We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Charles De Lint

#14. I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

V.S. Naipaul

#15. I am going to pull the music
from your mouth and furthermore

I'll take the orange aching light that splits
your ribs when I or any
beautiful things come at you.

Mark Bibbins

#16. I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it's some aspect of myself that's coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.

Michael Shannon

#17. Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

Austin O'Malley

#18. Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

Felicia Day

#19. I had a boyfriend for a long time, and I've never really been single as an adult.

Erin Heatherton

#20. Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.

Susan Howatch

#21. I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

Francesca Annis