A Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Finish Job Longest Never Started Takes

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J. R. R. Tolkien
English - Writer
January 3, 1892 - September 2, 1973

No-one wants to finish a job badly. If you know that you are going to finish your job in six months, then you want to finish well.

Sven-Goran Eriksson

Whenever I've done jobs, whether it's an acting job or writing job, there's an aspect of it that feels like you help build your piece of it, and then you watch as someone takes it, and they finish building it.

Wyatt Cenac

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

Neil Gaiman

Together, we're going to finish the job we started.

Barack Obama

Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important. It's to find out if you're going to be a writer or not, because that's one of the most important lessons. Most, maybe 90% of people, will start writing and never finish what they started. If you want to be a writer that's the hardest and most important lesson: Finish it. Then go back to fix it.

Tad Williams

It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish.

Eddie Harris

Most people go to college to get a job, and here I am sitting in class with a job, making exponentially more than whoever's teaching me, you know what I'm saying? At the end of the day, I wanted to finish what I started, and make my mom proud. A lot of people put a lot of hard work and investment to allow me to go to school, and for me not to finish would have been like a slap in the face to my family and those people.

Mike Posner

With the finale episode of 'Gravity Falls' our job as storytellers is to finish all the things we've started.

Alex Hirsch

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Abigail Van Buren

I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience.

Zoe Kravitz

We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.

Dylan Clark

I'm proud to say that I've never had a normal job. I started doing stand-up when I was in high school, purely as a measure to never get a proper job.

Seth Rogen

Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.

Charles Webster Hawthorne

You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.

Mike Webster

Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.