A Quote by Katharine Hepburn

It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.

Katharine Hepburn

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Katharine Hepburn
American - Actress
May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003

When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.

Brian Eno

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

Science is going to build a base on the Moon! This is a very necessary and a very possible mission! Start and finish! Thousands of problems will arise in this mission, thousands of solutions will be found! Start and finish! Moon is a good hole to enter the blood vessels of the universe. Start and finish!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world to see.

Nell Scovell

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.

Tim Tebow

As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

Michael Strahan

My life's been surreal from start to finish.

Lee Pearson

I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?

Shaquille O'Neal

Remember, it?s the finish, not the start, that counts the most in life.

John C. Maxwell

Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget about failing to many. Who cares? Doesn't matter when you start or finish, just start, no deviations, no excuses.

Tom Platz

You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.

Nastia Liukin

The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.

Watchman Nee

In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.

Woody Allen

Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.

Raul Garcia

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.