#finish

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#finished #had #kind #love #love affair

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

— Greg Anderson

#destination #doing #finishing #focus #found

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. ↗

— Russell Banks

#books #finish #lists #more #relative

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#finishes #grave #halfway #his #only

I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#education #finish #homeless #i #want

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do! ↗

— Roland Joffe

#always #asked #because #cannot #conversation

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem. ↗

— Allen Tate

#before #bring #critic #evidence #finished

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#book #boring #by the time #developing #finished

I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting. ↗

— David Keith

#always #anything #because #down #film

I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised me to stay at school and finish my exams. Even if I had gone and won the Olympics, I might not have handled the pressure. So I moved on. ↗

— David Rudisha

#beijing #coach #even #exams #favourite