Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
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.
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.
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.
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!
There is nothing more rewarding than completing a goal you have set for yourself.
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.
I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they can make a lot of money and they build an audience from book to book, but I don't like that as a writer. I prefer the idea of just telling a story, completing it within your book, and moving on and not forcing a child to read eight of them.
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)
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.
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
Take all the Syrians, for example. They are where they need to be. They don't need saving. They are having their experiences and they're completing what they need to complete within this human element, in this complete illusion.
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finished—and meaning is made—not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through.
I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.
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.
I’m three legs toward completing the career Grand Slam at 25. So, I’m feeling pretty good right now.
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
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.
