Top 256 Completion Quotes & Sayings

If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.

You have to develop your whole game to completion.

Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure, is the "right" one, is often determined by the structure of the system, the situation. There are requirements, structurally determined; there are possible in pure cases unambiguous decisions as to which completion does justice to the situation, which does not, which violates the requirements and the situation.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion.

Sometimes checking that ball down is the simple decision. It's about moving the chains. It's about a completion here and a completion there. And that's how you know the game really slows down is when you're able to do that, when it's just second nature.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.

I've been president of Brown and chancellor of Vanderbilt, where they have very high completion rates.

Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

I am way more accurate than my completion percentage shows.

With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the commencement of the new one, we trust they will not ultimately result in this generation's being acquainted with these inventions through the medium of pen, ink and paper merely; and still more do we hope, that for the honour of our country's reputation in the future pages of history, these causes will not lead to the completion of the undertaking by some other nation or government.

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

I strongly believe the DREAM Act should require the completion of a degree.

There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.

Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.

On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.

What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us.

Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices - wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

It is a long road from conception to completion.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.

Having my son, it's such a sense of completion as a woman; it's put me at peace.

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.

Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

The choice to follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who that person is. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and forgiveness is our greatest need.

The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.

In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.

If persons in the untreated...group die at any time in the study interval, they are reported...In the treated group, however, deaths which occur before completion of the treatment are rejected from the data, since these patients do not then meet the criteria...of the term 'treated'. The longer it takes for completion of the treatment,...the worse the error.

When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.

A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

I'm forever BECOMING. I'll never be complete, because completion is death.

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

The journey to the completion of 'Year Of The Tiger' was very interesting and full of a lot of trial and error.

Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

Reality is the completion of experience.

The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .

The road is long fro the project to its completion.

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.