Best 127 quotes in «finishing quotes» category

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

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.

FINISH STRONG!

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

When you put the hard work in... reward will come out.

You will never know what you are made of until you have to made of something.

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.

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.

And so out of the blue the call did come and said, you know, "Would you be - would you consider turning this [The Starter Wife] now into a series?" And so obviously that was a shock. And all the conversations began. And, you know, and now we're here. Now we're finishing up our last episode right now.

You need two things to write a great book: imagination and inclination. Without one, your book will be boring; without the other, your book won't get finished at all.

And then when she takes him through the whole wine tasting process, finishing with a long, languid taste that she really enjoyed “she opened her eyes and saw Nick staring at her. “I feel like I need a cigarette and a shower after watching that.

And then there is the magnificent Thierry Henry - someone who has blistering pace and is unbelievable when he is finishing at his best.

Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.

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

At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to use my left hand. But I persevered. The first one I ended up finishing was the duck.

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing

Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.

Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix; in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.

But-Jace what are you doing?' 'Finishing my shower. And if you‘ve made me run through all the hot water, I‘ll be very annoyed.

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

Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.

Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

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

For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

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

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.