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finishing
«Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.»
Author: Greg Anderson
(Author)
| About:
Action,
Journey,
Joy
| Keywords:
destination, finishing, focus on
«When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it / a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand / as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.»
«Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
finishing, out in, shot, took, yard
«The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, 'The work is done.'»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| Keywords:
canter, finishing, riders, standstill, The Goal, voices
«Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| Keywords:
finishing, oblivion, Olympics, silver, the Olympics
«The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.»