Finishing Quotes · Page 13

The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished…

— Richard Schmid

They talk about a lot of different things, but I think they definitely have the same school of thought as my husband…

— Amanda Peet

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

— Daniel H. Pink

Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about…

— Conan O'Brien

Trying to get over guys and knock them out, that's what fires me up. Decision victories, whoop dee doo, but finishing guys…

— Robbie Lawler

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

— Truman Capote

Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the…

— Phil Collins

“Work your craft; until it becomes an art form.”

— Johnnie Dent Jr

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of…

— Julia Cameron

Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude,…

— Arthur Rubinstein

I'm quite good at finishing, I suppose.

— Dwight Gayle

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

— Ted Godwin

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's…

— Leslie Jamison

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

— Tim Zuck

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

— Neil Gaiman

I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time…

— Theodora Goss

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of…

— Richard Ernst

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

— Pliny the Younger

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler…

— Kurt Busch

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition…

— Oscar Hammerstein II

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I…

— Olive Schreiner

“Screw the punch; you want a knock-out, don’t you?”

— Teresa Denys

Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of…

— Willem de Kooning

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

— Dale Earnhardt