#completion

I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#i #inception #like #looks #see

On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#completion #factory #i #military #military service

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. ↗

— Jack Welch

#business #business leaders #completion #create #drive

We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once. ↗

— Orville Wright

#better #completion #could #drawing #expected

It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell, she was compelled to walk the entire wall, no matter the obstructions in her path (beer cans, branches). This compulsion, applied to other fields, manifested itself as "intelligence." Every unknown word sent her to a dictionary--in search of something like "completion"--and every book led to another book, a process that, of course, could never be completed. This route through early life gave her no small portion of joy, and, indeed, it seemed at first that her desires and her capacities were basically aligned. She wanted to read things--could not resist wanting to read things--and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive. On the other hand, that she should receive any praise for such reflexive habits baffled the girl, for she knew herself to be fantastically stupid about many things. Wasn't it possible that what others mistook for intelligence was in fact only a sort of mutation of the will? ↗

— Zadie Smith

#compulsion #desires #finishing #intelligence #joy

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#available #before #completion #considered #finished

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. ↗

— Bob Graham

#aims #come #completion #concluded #distraction

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished. ↗

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#bottoms #completion #women #art

You have done well," Grandfather said. "We thank you." "We were afraid sometimes," Jetsam replied. "Good." Grandfather's eyes smiled. "That means you had the courage to keep trying. ↗

— Sheila Moon

#courage #fear #courage

He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough. ↗

— Annette Curtis Klause

#desire #love #life