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“Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.”

Bigs Able Action Success Individual Steps Projects Completion Errands

Book:Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success

Source: Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success

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

Forever Becoming Completion

Author:Stacy Barthe

“September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion. September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth and colour. It glows like old amber.”

Mind Months Depth Maturity Colour Warmth September Tire Baskets Completion Amber Climax

Book:The Glory of the Garden

Source: The Glory of the Garden

“The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.”

Men Moments Beautiful Artist Effort Behinds Laughing Imagine Color Gay Labor Disappointment Brilliant Curious Frustrated Schemes Fabric Brushes Darling Completion Sagacity

Author:Timothy Dwight V

“I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.”

Trying Christian Adventure Shapes Gods Will Christian Life Discovering Completion

Author:Keith Miller

“A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a cottage; one that had gone on for twenty-seven years was a huge and rambling mansion. There were bound to be crannies and storage spaces, most of them dusty and abandoned, some containing a few unpleasant relics you would just as soon you hadn't found. But that was no biggie. You either threw those relics out or took them to Goodwill.”

Source: A Good Marriage

“There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever... One exists in eternity, one has become eternal... One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.”

Ifs World Trying Made Light Moving Realizing Views Imagine Eternal Approach Eternity Speed Point Of View Conventions Slow Down Relativity Completion Dualism Speed Of Light

Author:Terence McKenna

“Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.”

People Feels Writing Feelings Happens Together Performing Puzzles Halfway Completion

Author:Brandi Carlile

“Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.”

Book Stories Grows Bored Twelve Chapters Fortitude Distracted Completion

Author:Hugh Howey

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

Practice Knowing Completion

Book:The Philosophy of Wang Yang-ming

Source: The Philosophy of Wang Yang-ming

“There was a brief moment of weightlesssness: a balancing point between air and earth, dirt and heaven. How strange, I thought, how like the moment between sleeping and falling when everything is beautifully surreal and nothing is corporeal. How like floating towards completion. But as often happens in that time between existing in the world and fading into dreams, this moment over the edge ended with the ruthless jerk back to awareness.”

World Moments Dream Happens Earth Fall Heaven Sleep Air Awareness Strange Edges Dirt Floating Surreal Ruthless Jerk Completion Fading Over The Edge Brief Moments

Author:Andrew Davidson

“TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.”

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.”

Ifs Art Done Artist Pleasure Mere Incidents Things Done Completion

Book:Harbours of Memory

Source: Harbours of Memory

“The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.”

Men Humans Human Beings Evolution Computer Ideals Essence Creator Liberated Completion Archetype

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.”

Mean Book Ideas Photography Exciting Series Working It Essays Completion Taking Pictures

Author:George A Tice

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

Way Want Writing Ends Ideals Resolve Completion

Author:Mitch Glazer

“If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.”

Ifs Thinking Men Matter Lasts Nations Race Comfort Fairs Slavery Ice Ruins Cream Ice Cream Cheaper Completion Decoration Robbing Vanilla

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptor's ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.”

Force Effort Steps Mystery Fashion Style Expression Please Sight Studios Chips Ladders Toilets Statues Completion Sculptors Swept Away

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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

Projects Surprising Ambitious Optimist Norm Completion

Author:Fernando J. Corbato

“All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.”

People Kind Ideas Ends Self Bigs Dies House Waiting Majors Sitting Fats Frightening Publishing Biographies Slap Completion Imposition Publishing House

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.”

Thinking Positive Thinking Expression Inward Affirmation Completion

Author:William Ellery Channing

“I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink.”

Want Long Humor Beautiful Five Written Drink Thousand Hundred Alcohol Heat Feds Waking Alcoholics Anticipate Completion

Book:Jack London Six Pack

Source: Jack London Six Pack

“I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.”

War Would Be House White Successful Madness Aim Iraq Telling The Truth White House Afghanistan Distraction Completion

Author:Bob Graham

“In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).”

Pleasure Praise Completion Praise God

Author:John Piper

“Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.”

Mind Facts Differences Cease Socialism Communism Completion Triumphant Militant

Book:Political writings of William Morris

Source: Political writings of William Morris

“I won a scholarship to come to LA and compete in a modeling and talent completion and was amazed when I won it. I had never acted before in my life and won the acting category. I began to wonder what this is about and then decided to see what happened.”

Acting Wonder Happened Talent Decided Categories Amazed Modeling Scholarship Completion

Author:Eva Longoria

“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.”

May Two Choices Waiting Progress Minutes Tasks Customers Software Chef Programmers Urgency Completion Patron Two Choices

Author:Fred Brooks

“Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision, destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man. The state can train subjects...but it can never develop free men who take their affairs into their own hands; for independent thought is the greatest danger that it has to fear.”

“No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.”

Art Lying Left Behinds Half Grace Painting Poet Masters Activity Soldier Finished Thinker Replaced Left Behind Statesmen Provinces Completion God's Grace Great Poet

Author:Adolf Hitler

“When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain, we can bring back up with us the sweetness of life and the exhilaration of inner growth. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.”

Source: Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow

“Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!”

Absolutes Predictions Completion

Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a course - appears to be an excellent means of sharpening the mind and developing mental skills that are of general benefit.”

Mind Wells Mean Doe Courses Students Skills Benefits Mathematics Developing Excellent Completion Sharpening

Author:Keith Devlin

“Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With me, picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture, then I destroy it. But in the long run nothing is lost; the red that I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.”

Long Running Moving Used Turns Lost Stage Red Destruction Each Day Something New Progressive Long Runs Somewhere Else Completion

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.”

Ends Play Action Games Draws Baseball Exciting Contests Seventies Completion Baseball Games

Author:Mardy Grothe

“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.”

“There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.”

Next Careers Football Strive Completion

Author:Ryan Giggs

“Getting Stronger - Each day upon entering the weight room you demonstrate a desire for excellence that makes you someone special. Special, because few people possess the dedication and strength of heart required to regularly work hard at something this difficult. Upon completion of each workout, you can and should feel proud, for you have just moved one step closer towards reaching your full potential and the ultimate goal of and being the best you can be.”

“The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.”

Needs Hands Tasks Tyranny Hardest Completion

Author:Socrates

“Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.”

Kind Action Energy Prayer Normal Completion

Author:William Ralph Inge

“We must never forget that BYU is not just another "good" university. It was established by the Lord's servants and continues to be blessed with the direction and support of prophets, seers, and revelators. While we may not understand all of the details, we do know that Brigham Young University occupies a key place in the Lord's plans for the completion of His work in these last days.”

Knows May Lasts Young Forget Lord Support Plans Keys Blessed University Details Servant Prophet Never Forget Completion Last Day Being Blessed Seers Byu

Author:Cecil O. Samuelson

“I think my first love is film. There's something about the span of it and the completion of the experience. You sit down for two hours, in the dark, and you go somewhere else, and then you come back, having completed a journey.”

Thinking Firsts Two Film Hours Dark Love Is Journey First Love Somewhere Else Completion

Author:Jon Spaihts

“The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of the universe. The successful candidate will have an excellent command of mass, energy, space, time and some maths. Bonus paid upon completion of proofs”

Hands Universe Individual Energy Space Successful Type Mass Paid Track Math Proof Command Excellent Candidates Conception Academic Academy Institute Completion Bonus Proactive Space Time

Author:Albert Einstein

“A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.”

“Completing a large or difficult survey can be a very satisfying thing, especially if there have been hurdles or setbacks along the way. In our work, we get to "tick" off jobs quite often, so the sense of completion can also be rewarding.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Jobs Difficult Satisfying Setback Surveys Completion Tick Hurdle Completing

Author:Mark Mason

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

Nice Standards Available Nice Things Completion

Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.”

Asks Offers Grants Completion

Author:St. Jerome

“If this is something you'd truly like to work on, not out of a sense of guilt but because you would enjoy occasionally reciprocating, there are a wealth of resources out there for the enthusiastic amateur (you are far from the only would-be blow-jobber whose spirit is willing but gag reflex is weak). You have more options than "no blow jobs, ever" and "regular whole-hog sessions to completion that result in vomiting."”

Ifs Whole Would Be Jobs Spirit Enjoy Wealth Results Willing Resources Weak Guilt Blow Session Enthusiastic Completion Reflexes Hog Gags Vomiting Blow Job

Author:Mallory Ortberg

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

Desire Love Is Yearning Completion

Book:The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism

Source: The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism

“I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's not where you'll find your sense of completion.”

People Said Dream Realizing Wealth Fame Completion

Author:Jim Carrey

“The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.”

Writing Fighting Harder Phones Checks Helpful Spells Swimming Unpredictable Completion Entropy Unruly Swimming Upstream Spell Check

Author:Brian Christian

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