what you do not start, you do not finish.' procrastination can be liken to a journey without destination.Now is the best time to strike
I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.
Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the tablets of stone.
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
[Discipline i]t’s the ability to overcome the urge to grab the bright and shiny and interesting to finish what you’ve started.
It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.
As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
Even if you finish the year at No. 1 in the world, and Tiger Woods has done this, you can still probably get better.
If you cannot fill the gap and emptiness in your heart, don’t be disappointed. If you had already filled it, your life would have meant finished.
Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
