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Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration. — Edward Adam Strecker
We have God's promise that what we give will be given back many times over, so let us go forth from here and rekindle the… — Ronald Reagan
Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under… — George Washington
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. — Francois Rabelais
A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question. — Unknown Author
I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I… — Fiona Apple
You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time… — Phil Collins
Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know… — David Byrne
When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished… — Georges Bernanos
The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it… — Paul Simon
By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could… — Steve Earle
The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie… — Dan Jenkins
I don't think I ever saw Hank with anybody, say, 'Let's go write a song.' One Sunday morning we left Nashville to go to Birmingham… — Don Helms
But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it… — James Taylor
When I train, I'm peeled away. I'm at my rawest state. Generally there's spit coming out my mouth, sweat pouring out my body and every… — Dwayne Johnson
I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue… — Larry Holmes
Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second. — Bobby Unser
If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help… — Mark Twain
Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody… — Sara Maitland
Sometimes you donâ€™t know what you're writing until you've finished it. — Unknown Author

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