I am happy that I ran the half-marathon, but to me, just running and saying that I finished a race isn't enough for me. I want to run the race as best as I can. Working out for pants size isn't enough. I need a goal or a race to get back on the treadmill every day.
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.
I will be sof brief, I have already finished.
We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.
It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.
I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character never were produced, nor ever will arise, from memory alone.
Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
My life was over, finished, and I’d never seen Pearl Jam play live
In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.
When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.
I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a huntergatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!
Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?
With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.
My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.
I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.
You're not going," he said as soon as she'd finished. "If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going to Idris. " - Jace