Completion Quotes
189 quotes by 175 authors
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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies…
— Pat Conroy
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Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for…
— Mary Doria Russell
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Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and…
— Piers Anthony
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I returned to the courtyard and saw that the sun had grown weaker. Beautiful and clear as it had been, the morning (as the day…
— Umberto Eco
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In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present…
— Peter Straub
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What Rose brings to the Doctor’s life is completion. It’s completing a circle – he’s male, he’s alien, he’s a traveler. Between the two of…
— Russell T Davies
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Done is better than perfect.
— Sheryl Sandberg
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Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion…
— Mary Midgley
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Faith causes changes. Anytime there is change, there is opportunity, including the opportunity to fail. But failing can be a step toward completion of a…
— Paula White
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Dharma gives you the balance. It gives you the establishment into proper behavior, proper understanding, proper living, but it doesn't give you the completion of…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
— John Ruskin
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Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
— E. M. Forster
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In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.
— Mitch Glazer
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Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to…
— Hugh Howey
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I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out…
— Erica Jong
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who…
— Hank Johnson
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When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition.…
— Clayton M. Christensen
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Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play is, of course,…
— Billy Evans
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Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation.
— David Gross
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Who Wrote These Completion Quotes
175 authors contributed a total of 189 Completion Quotes, led by these top contributors: