A Quote by Jason Calacanis

Starting is easy. Finishing is hard. — © Jason Calacanis
Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.
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.
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.
It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!
Finishing something is the hardest part. You know it's not as good as you hoped. You know there are plot problems. You know that by finishing it, you're saying - even if only to yourself - 'This is the best I can do.' And because it's not perfect, that's really hard.
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.
The only thing that's really hard for me is when I go to bed after everybody else in my house gets up. And that - you just feel stale. It just feels awful to be still finishing your day when everybody else is starting theirs.
The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.
There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.
I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.
Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them.
It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.
When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup.
One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.
If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.
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.
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