There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.
When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.
I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint. . . There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.
I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.
Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.
I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
Houses were knocked down. . . enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood. . . The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.
While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible.
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.
I take running for president and being president really seriously. It's a - maybe the toughest job in the world, right? And I knew that there was unfinished business from the successful two terms of President Obama, whom I had served, but that we needed to go further on the economy, on health care, and so much else.
Yeah, I feel sort of unfinished in New York, even though I spent so many years there. I think it's because I never got a chance to do any Broadway, or even off-Broadway. I would love to do that and I haven't given up on that.
Commitments present themselves in delineations of black and white. You either honor your commitments or you don't. Success is the result of making and keeping commitments to your self and others, while all failed or unfinished goals, projects and relationships are the direct result of broken commitments. It's that simple, that profound, and that important.
One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.
I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever.
It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.
I don't walk away from things that I think are unfinished.
There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.
Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It's not only possible, it's essential.
The unfinished is nothing.