It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.
We will finish the race.
I've got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.
I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.
(. . . )Did she really tell Roddy Carstairs she could outshoot him with his own pistol?" "No," Jason said dryly. "She told him that if he made one more improper advance to her, she would shoot him- and if she missed, she would turn Wolf loose on him. And if Wolf didn't finish the job, she had every faith I would. " Jason chuckled and shook his head. "It's the first time I've been nominated for the role of hero. I was a little crushed, however, to be second choice after the dog.
Finish every day and be done with it.
It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.
Let's finish with Guccifer. My communication with him is now entirely public. It is benign. Secondarily, the timing of my communication is after, not before, I write a story for Breitbart regarding the hacking. And I never defend him from not being a Russian agent in that piece.
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.
Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.
When I was 18 I read a book about Buddhism and, before I was halfway through it I said to my mother, "I'm a Buddhist!" She said, "That's great. Finish reading the book and then you can tell me all about it. " From that moment on I knew I was a Buddhist.
I wonder who is going to finish second.
Don't start something that you cannot finish.
[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. . . . Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a superficial sense. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
I would rather try a shot to win than play safe and finish second.
For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.