Finishing Quotes

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

Shoes are the finishing touch on any outfit and it is important to complete a look with the perfect pair!

Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.

I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.

I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.

I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.