Ice Cube
Rapper, Actor
"Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it's cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing."
Finishing quotes
Finishing
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Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress."
Neil Gaiman
Author
"You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things."
Harville Hendrix
Author
"We always marry someone for the purpose of finishing our childhood."
Marie Forleo
Entrepreneur, Author
"Creative success means balancing your love of starting things with a habit of finishing them."
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"I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel."
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"Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing."
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"Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work."
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"Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me."
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"While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose."
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"Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible."
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"We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be."
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"Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes."
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"The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first."
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"Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing."
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"I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing."
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"Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts."
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"I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant."
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"It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have."
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"Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next."
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"I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point."
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"I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later."
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"If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it."
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"Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar."
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"However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown."
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