Half Finished Quotes
22 quotes by 22 authors
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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
— David Lloyd George
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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
— Abraham Lincoln
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts…
— William Matthews
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Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen. It's tempting to…
— Frances Hardinge
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Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf.…
— Yehuda Berg
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A painting that is well composed is half finished.
— Pierre Bonnard
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I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back…
— Michael Nesmith
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Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories…
— Ally Carter
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First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
— Matsuo Basho
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Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
— Edgar Degas
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I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.
— Christopher Meloni
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A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
— David Mitchell
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In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence…
— Werner Herzog
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Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives…
— Koren Zailckas
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Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering…
— Lauren Oliver
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Haven't had your fill of interesting events?" "Never. They are the spice of life." She held up her half-finished hat. "How do you like it?"…
— Christopher Paolini
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I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all…
— Jane Yolen
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A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."
— Robert Runcie
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves.
— Ralph Washington Sockman
Who Wrote These Half Finished Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 22 Half Finished Quotes as follows: