Finishing Quotes · Page 17

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

— James Whistler

Cristiano is a monster at scoring goals, attacking the area, and finishing.

— Dani Carvajal

Finishing second and getting in the Champions' League quarter-finals or semi-finals is fine, but at the end of the day you need…

— Gianluca Vialli

I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the…

— Robert Doisneau

I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can…

— Ricky Gervais

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

— Claude Monet

While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an…

— Walter J. Phillips

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

And when those bombs went off, there were runners who, after finishing a marathon, kept running for another two miles to the…

— Stephen Colbert

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search…

— Paul Gauguin

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting…

— Yehuda Berg

“While others see their job as a task, catch fun with yours.”

— Utibe Samuel Mbom

O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy .…

— William James

[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing…

— Karla Souza

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second…

— Josh Young

[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and…

— Tom Bissell

Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Overcomers have a 'finishing' anointing. They don't merely start things. They keep on moving forward until they complete the task. Many people…

— Barbara Wentroble

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to…

— David Graeber

Being world No 1 would be fantastic but you'd like to do it by finishing the year as No 1 without anything…

— Neil Robertson

“You will never know what you are made of until you have to made of something.”

— Johnnie Dent Jr

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

— Gail Tsukiyama

I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how…

— Octavia Butler

My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time…

— Nora Roberts

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

— Dean Cain