Best 127 quotes in «finishing quotes» category

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

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.

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

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist.  The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. . .  Fear is what blocks an artist.  The fear of not being good enough.  The fear of not finishing.  The fear of failure and of success.  The fear of beginning at all.

People read vampire novels and say, Oh I want to read another vampire novel. People read fantasy, and theyre like, Oh I love fantasy. I dont know that people are necessarily finishing Hunger Games and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.

The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.

The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.

There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

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.

There’s always tomorrow.” “Exactly,” she said, finishing off her first doughnut, selecting a second. Maybe she wouldn’t starve to death, she decided. Maybe she’d eat herself into obesity and explode. Death by doughnut.

To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

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.

To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

To write it down was to put the finishing touch on any event, see what it was, what it meant, what it stood for. To put anything into words was like pouring melted wax on top of cold glasses of jelly, to harden there and preserve and keep what was underneath like new.

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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.

We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood.

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

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

FINISH STRONG!

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

A little at a time until less becomes more and more becomes less on the other side.

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.

God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.

I moved, looking for a cigarette. They were in my hand. I lit one. In a moment, I thought, I will say something. I will say something and then I will walk out of this room forever.

It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell, she was compelled to walk the entire wall, no matter the obstructions in her path (beer cans, branches). This compulsion, applied to other fields, manifested itself as "intelligence." Every unknown word sent her to a dictionary--in search of something like "completion"--and every book led to another book, a process that, of course, could never be completed. This route through early life gave her no small portion of joy, and, indeed, it seemed at first that her desires and her capacities were basically aligned. She wanted to read things--could not resist wanting to read things--and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive. On the other hand, that she should receive any praise for such reflexive habits baffled the girl, for she knew herself to be fantastically stupid about many things. Wasn't it possible that what others mistook for intelligence was in fact only a sort of mutation of the will?

It is impossible to make time but you can always make a commitment.

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish will learn the error of their ways because you did at least show them your teeth.

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish have ignored the fact that you have already shown them your teeth.

Many people think that the idea is the difficult part of writing a story, and this can be true. But there is another challenge too: finishing the story.

The secret is not following the right path, it's following that right path to the end. Don't quit, my friend, until you've arrived.

Success in America comes in over a million flavors... all you have you have to do is try one.

The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking.

The thing about finishing a story is that finishing is really only the beginning.

Starting is not most people’s problem, staying, continuing and finishing is.

Starting something can be easy, it is finishing it that is the highest hurdle.

You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas.