Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.
I'm always a bit disappointed when I've finished working on a book.
I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
Living things aren't finished, you see. Everything they have ever been in contact with, each thought they have had, each person they have known - these things are still at work in them; nothing's finished. ("The Graveyard Reader")
When I finished performing 'I Won't Give Up' for the first time, I opened my eyes, and I think there was maybe six people in there when I started, and when I finished there was about 30 people, all standing around with their jaws dropped in complete ...
I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 s...
His plan in your life means his work in your hands, and you can be sure it is work he has chosen and gifted you to do.
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.
A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.
The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.
It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee'...
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on.
When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.
I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.
I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.
And then there's the perverse joy of subtly working in references to marathon training in daily life, say at the post office or while waiting outside my first-graders' classrooms at the end of the school day.
Frank Lopez: Hey, Tony. Remember when I told you when you first started working for me, the guys that last in this business, are the guys who fly straight. Low-key, quiet. But the guys who want it all, chicas, champagne, flash... they don't last. Ton...
