Starting And Finishing Quotes & Sayings

By bells and many other similar techniques they (schools) teach that
nothing is worth finishing. The gross error of this is progressive: if
nothing is worth finishing then by extension nothing is worth starting
either. Few children are so thick-skulled they miss the point. — John Taylor Gatto

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

Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish. — John C. Maxwell

Just because the road ahead is long, is no reason to slow down. Just because there is much work to be done, is no reason to get discouraged. It is a reason to get started, to grow, to find new ways, to reach within yourself and discover strength, commitment, and determination. The road ahead is long and difficult, but it's filled with opportunity. Start what needs starting. Finish what needs finishing. Get on the road. Stay on the road. Don't give up. — Ralph Marston

Formal education makes you a living, self-education makes you a legend. — Habeeb Akande

I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can. — Bill Gates

Not just starting marathons but actually finishing them ... (no matter how long it takes) will always lead to making a better you. — Timothy Pina

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do. — Anthony Burgess

I'm always astonished whenever I finish anything. Astonished and depressed. My desire for perfection should prevent me from ever finishing anything; it should prevent me even from starting. — Fernando Pessoa

When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly and loudly-FINISH! Starting something is easier than finishing it. You must have discipline to go from a few sentences, to a few paragraphs, to a piece of writing that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Finishing something bridges the difference between someone who has talent and one who does not. My best advice? Apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair-and finish. FINISH! — E.L. Konigsburg

Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. — Jason Calacanis

Love is infinite. There is no beginning and no end. There's no starting point and no finishing line. Love just is. Love is born, grows, matures, and sometimes it dies. But the memory will remain with you for the rest of your breathing hours. You will fall in love, you will fall out of love. But you will love again. You always do. — Mia Asher

The next best thing after finishing writing a chapter is starting a new one. — Chris Almeida

The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do. — Louise Nurding

Two things are difficult about writing a novel. Starting and finishing — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I presume that House Arryn remembers its own words," the Imp said. "As High as Honor. — George R R Martin

But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots in a mosaic, but each had a separate narrative starting a few months or a lifetime earlier and finishing that day in the New York City Marathon, the race with 37,000 stories. — Mark Sutcliffe

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

I'm always looking for the comfiest place to lie down, like a cat. — Naomie Harris

It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile. — Zora Neale Hurston

I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy! — Oprah Winfrey

I'm not copying you!" Luke said. "A werewolf is totally different than a vampire! You're creepy all the time. Mine is just, like, a monthly thing ... "
"Like PMS?" I suggested.
"Shut up! — Flynn Meaney

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected. — Ron Fournier

We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran — Wesley Clark

I love 'Sunday in the Park with George.' I saw that when I was just, just starting theater school, and I remember singing 'Finishing the Hat' or at least reading the lyrics to 'Finishing the Hat' and other songs from 'Sunday in the Park with George' to my mom to try to explain why I wanted to be an artist. — Stephen Colbert

Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother! — Charles Baudelaire

I was a lot better at starting stories than I was at finishing them. — George R R Martin

It was like starting to write a novel. When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This happens every time. Then gradually I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate and I eliminate the possibility of ever finishing. So — John Steinbeck

Persistence and change need to be considered together, in spite of their apparently opposite nature. — Paul Watzlawick

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family. — Nastassja Kinski

You're hard?" I smile. "Well, you're hot," he says with a shrug. — Samantha Towle

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time. — Molly Antopol

Starting requires motivation, finishing demands perseverance. — Moagi Keretetse

I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting. — Arshile Gorky

Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it ... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done. — Elizabeth Neel

That's another sort of being haunted: starting something and never finishing it. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them. — Marie Forleo

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion. — Barbara Kingsolver

There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting. — Gautama Buddha

Starting means you're going to finish. If it doesn't ship, you've failed. You haven't poked the box if the box doesn't realize it's been poked. To merely start without finishing is just boasting, or stalling, or a waste of time. I have no patience at all for people who believe they are doing their best work but are hiding it from the market. If you don't ship, you actually haven't started anything at all. At some point, your work has to intersect with the market. At some point, you need feedback as to whether or not it worked. Otherwise, it's merely a hobby. — Seth Godin