#finishing

But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#attention #day #finished #finishing #front

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. ↗

— Kurt Busch

#car #claim #even #finishing #going

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe. ↗

— Franz Halder

#enemy #finishing #left #luftwaffe #off

I don't attend an actual school but I'm still following through with high school. I do work with a tutor for about six hours a day. It's hard core but definitely worth it, and it's my main focus now - finishing up high school before I release my new album and apply to college. ↗

— JoJo

#actual #album #apply #attend #before

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. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#career #every #every time #finishing #i

Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#bit #bookstore #clubs #down #esoteric

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

— Carroll O'Connor

#archie #enjoyed #every #finishing #i

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#finishing #happiness #inspirational #success #inspirational

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#adam #believing #did #doing #end