Top 1200 Finished Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory.

The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.

Because of Jesus' finished work of the cross, He will never be angry with you nor rebuke you even when you fail.

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

When 'Games of Thrones' is finished, I'm not one to go on about it too long and rest on one's laurels. The stuff that interests me is the work.

I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

To me, a song is not finished. To me, there's no such thing as a finished anything. All of Beethoven's nine symphonies, to me, are one. I think of it as having no beginning and no end.

A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.

Even after the text is written, there are a tremendous number of stages along the way to the finished book. If a publisher cares about the finished product, none of them will be omitted.

Don't start the day until you have it finished. Don't start the week until you have it finished. Don't start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

Jesus sat down to demonstrate to us that the work is indeed finished.

We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.

It's great to see my hard work paying off, even if it's not finished.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.

If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. I can't be punished any more. I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.

The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!

When I'm finished with a film, I've been living with it, we've been dubbing it, recording to it, and so on. You walk out of the studio and, 'Ah, it's finished.'

When we finished 'Stop Making Sense,' we went right to the San Francisco Film Festival for the world premiere, and people swarmed the stage and started dancing before the first song was even finished.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

If you like someone, even if its 2 A.M. and you've just finished work, then you get that lovely feeling where you want to see them.

A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart.

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring.

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God's word for it; what more is needed?

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts-which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.

I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.

When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him.