Top 1200 Finished Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough.

Before I finished my undergraduate degree, I found 'TYT' and dedicated myself to helping it grow into a digital news empire.

Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in the finished product.

When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

He's a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished sinning yet, and he'd let me know when he was.

Now I spend hours on headlines - days if necessary. And when I get a good headline, I know that my task is nearly finished.

I knew the second I finished the first record - 'House Of Balloons' - and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

In America, there are some artists who are more of an image than music; if your star status goes down there, you're finished.

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.

As soon as I finished 'Doctor Foster,' I obviously wanted to run straight home to give my husband a big cuddle.

I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.

I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.

Me and a lot of my team-mates still think and speak about the World Cup in 1994, when Sweden finished third.

There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.

The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.

You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say "enough."

I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

Look at children... If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.

In hindsight, everything in my life looks a little rosy. But the reality is that with, say, 'Swingers,' when we finished, it was considered a total failure.

Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .

Milestones have never really meant a lot. They probably will mean more when I've finished playing and actually reflect on what I have achieved.

I tell ya when I fly, I don't get no respect. I took one of those cheap flights, no frills. I finished eatin' and had to do the dishes.

I was reading 'The Mystic Eye' by Sadhguru of Isha Yoga Centre. I couldn't keep the book down and finished it in two-and-half hours.

And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you.

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

If the wrong people show their true colors only after reaching our highest offices, Singapore is finished.

We've finished our debut album which has 14 tracks. We're very proud of the release and can't wait for people to hear it.

I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I was educated in line with the basic premise: work work work. You are only a valuable human being if you work. This is utterly wrong. Half working, half dancing - that is the right mixture. I myself have danced and played too little.

After I wrapped 'Sons of Anarchy,' I traveled by myself for ten weeks. I started in Jordan and finished in Mali, in Timbuktu.

If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.

And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.

I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not going well.

The Naval Academy is a very prestigious place, and I choose to try it. I got there and darn near didn't pass, just about flunked out the first year, but a commandant by the name of Bush Bringle managed to call me in one day and taught me more about leadership in about 15 minutes than I have learned in the rest of my life. And because of Bush Bringle I regained some faith and confidence in myself, learning I had a little bit more in me than I thought, and I went back to work and finished.

When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences.

Somewhere along the way I realized that I enjoyed making useless things a lot more than well-finished products.

What's going on?" I sat down on the bed and finished the last of the scone. "Bad things," she said mischievously. "You'll approve.

Most people only work enough so that it feels like work, whereas successful people work at a pace that gets such satisfying results that work is a reward. Truly successful people don’t even call it work; for them, it’s a passion. Why? Because they do enough to win!