In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years over their tasks, but one day they will finish what they are doing. Then they will stop, hemmed in by their own walls. Life becomes meaningless once the building is finished. Those who plant suffer the storms and the seasons and rarely rest. Unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And by its constant demands on the gardner's attentions, it makes of the gardener's life a great adventure.
You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.
Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
Have you ever had a moment where you finish a piece, and then all of a sudden the piece sort of takes on it's own life beyond you? It doesn't happen every time, but there are some pieces where that happens, and I love that. I feel like that's what I'm seeking nowadays, that moment of transcendence with a piece. Where this thing becomes larger than me as a person. It becomes otherworldly, and then I get separated as maker from it, and then it has it's own life. I love that.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.
Those who cannot begin do not finish.
If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that.
Keep starting until you finish.
You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings.
You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin
Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
When you have set yourself a task finish it.
I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.
We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.