When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.
It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
The one thing finished in this hasty world.
The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.
You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time. " You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
At 19, your brain hasn't finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don't go through that at 19. Soldiers do. They're facing life in this accelerated, compressed form, and a lot of times, they're not ready for it.
We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.
I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.
I love doing what I do, but I don't like seeing the finished product.
Don't start your day until you have it finished on paper first.
I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.
It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
It was great. We knew we were going back when we finished the movie. It was such a big movie [Star Wars].
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.