Finishing Quotes
249 quotes by 233 authors
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Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
— Mario Batali
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
— Truman Capote
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or…
— Marc Chagall
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The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out…
— Henry Russell Sanders
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As a group I thought we played connected. I feel like we had a lot of great shots, some great opportunities, and for us it…
— Jennifer Botterill
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We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.
— Don Meyer
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Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found…
— Willem de Kooning
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Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces…
— Diana Lopez
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The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.
— Hal Higdon
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I thought, man, if you could run 100 miles, you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the f**king Buddha. Bringing peace and a smile…
— Jenn Shelton
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One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.
— Johannes Brahms
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If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.
— Marshall Faulk
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Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft…
— Kent Haruf
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You can't say my team aren't winners. They've proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.
— Gerard Houllier
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Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't…
— Conan O'Brien
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How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as I live. There…
— Robert H. Goddard
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There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!
— Jamie Campbell Bower
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused…
— Taryn Manning
Who Wrote These Finishing Quotes
233 authors contributed a total of 249 Finishing Quotes, led by these top contributors: