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“A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.”

Mean Ends Used Finished Finishing

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

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

Ends Causes Rivers Environmental Finished Conservation No Point

Author:Rachel Carson

“I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing.”

Thinking Knows Mean Littles Ends Building Projects Pages Draws Finished Drawing Damn Wheels The End Of The Day Keep Going Pens Scribbles

Author:Frank Gehry

“The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.”

Knows World May Ends Moments Reading Teach Drama Finished Doctrine Curtains Paragraph

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as strong as the beginning.”

Needs Has Beens Ends Strong Series Finished Reviews Flattering

Author:George R. R. Martin

“My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.”

Ifs Ends Kids Age Today Wanted Night Bits Drinking Finished Alcohol Staying Mum All Night Discouraging

Author:George Harrison

“Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.”

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky