Quotes about Unfinished

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Votes: 6

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. Votes: 6

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. Votes: 6

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. Votes: 6

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of. Votes: 6

The unfinished is nothing. Votes: 4

Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy. Votes: 4

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof Votes: 4

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.' Votes: 4

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. Votes: 4

Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought. Votes: 4

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least. Votes: 4

As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan. Votes: 4

Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired openly, they block unimagined amounts of human growth and potential. They can give rise to bizarre and unexplained behavior which causes untold internal stress. Votes: 4

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world--God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator. Votes: 4

I want to live in such a way that, if it is only twenty-nine more days or twenty-nine more weeks, or if it is twenty-nine more years or more, I want to faithful with each one of those-that I could go and meet the Lord without regrets, without unfinished business. Votes: 4

I do feel that I have unfinished business in the Premier League and now is the right time to return. I considered all the other offers very carefully and I firmly believe that Chelsea is the best choice. They match my footballing ambitions with their hunger and desire to win trophies. Votes: 4

. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. Votes: 4

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. Votes: 4

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces. Votes: 4

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what. Votes: 3

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible. Votes: 3

Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. Votes: 3

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done. Votes: 3

Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts. Votes: 3

Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity. Votes: 3

Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring. Votes: 3

You can't die with an unfinished book. Votes: 2

What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished. Votes: 2

Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help. Votes: 2

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. Votes: 2

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel. Votes: 2

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world. Votes: 2

When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished. Votes: 2

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been. Votes: 2

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes. Votes: 2

I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people. Votes: 2

I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems. Votes: 2

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book. Votes: 2

I believe we move in soul groups; we meet the same people over different lifetimes; we have to finish the unfinished business with those people. And when we do, they walk away from our lives. Votes: 2

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing. Votes: 2

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator. Votes: 2

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else. Votes: 2

When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon. Votes: 2

Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved. Votes: 2

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it. Votes: 2

I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life. Votes: 2

Never show unfinished work. Votes: 0

Liberty is always unfinished business Votes: 0

We are an unfinished nation. Votes: 0

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts. Votes: 0

Life should be an unfinished business. Votes: 0

I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts. Votes: 0

Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task. Votes: 0

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures. Votes: 0

Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution. Votes: 0

In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world. Votes: 0

Life is an unfinished art, few master it, most just bark. Votes: 0

I don't walk away from things that I think are unfinished. Votes: 0

I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon. Votes: 0

When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business. Votes: 0

The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count. Votes: 0

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished. Votes: 0

Door’s locked,” he said. “And we have unfinished business. Votes: 0

Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects. Votes: 0

... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless. Votes: 0

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished. Votes: 0

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on. Votes: 0

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones. Votes: 0

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds. Votes: 0

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country. Votes: 0

Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls. Votes: 0

We know that President Obama and his accomplishments, that there's a lot of unfinished business there. Votes: 0

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. Votes: 0

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly. Votes: 0

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards. Votes: 0

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished. Votes: 0

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet. Votes: 0

Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished. Votes: 0

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much. Votes: 0

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed. Votes: 0

What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete! Votes: 0

I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever. Votes: 0

The number of unfinished construction projects has increased significantly. A lot of these are not covered with any security Votes: 0

In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings. Votes: 0

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity. Votes: 0

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden. Votes: 0

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. Votes: 0

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world. Votes: 0

The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees. Votes: 0

An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question. Votes: 0

For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt. Votes: 0

A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result. Votes: 0

I like things to feel a touch unfinished; sweatpants with heels, or tennis shoes with a trouser. Those things are important. Votes: 0

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. Votes: 0

and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song Votes: 0

There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning. Votes: 0

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent. Votes: 0

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me. Votes: 0

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again. Votes: 0

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation. Votes: 0

There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene. Votes: 0

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "completes what nature left unfinished. Votes: 0

I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life. Votes: 0

I don't like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call is returned, every letter answered. Votes: 0

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained. Votes: 0

God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys of creation. Votes: 0

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.' Votes: 0

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished. Votes: 0

Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting. Votes: 0

I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process. Votes: 0

I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished. Votes: 0

the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished. Votes: 0

Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us. Votes: 0

The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery. Votes: 0

As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished. Votes: 0

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing. Votes: 0

I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant. Votes: 0

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history. Votes: 0

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history. Votes: 0

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece. Votes: 0

If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings. Votes: 0

At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself. Votes: 0

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time. Votes: 0

There is a place called "˜heaven' where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again. Votes: 0

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas. Votes: 0

The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience. Votes: 0

Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome. Votes: 0

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation. Votes: 0

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process. Votes: 0

Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential. Votes: 0

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition. Votes: 0

I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us. Votes: 0

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts. Votes: 0

However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown. Votes: 0

You are an unfinished work in progress. One of the good things about life's challenges: you get to find out that you're capable of being far more than you ever thought possible. Votes: 0

Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your mind. Talent without work is nothing more than raw unfinished material. Votes: 0

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. Votes: 0

You have a lot of unfinished business, but obviously every president who leaves, particularly after two terms, can point to many different areas where there has been progress and there has been change. Votes: 0

Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now. Votes: 0

But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile. Votes: 0

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I like the spreads - designing them is a welcome challenge - but for a dyed-in-the-wool page-a-day journeyman like me, it can be tough to leave a drawing unfinished at the end of the workday. Votes: 0

No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God. Votes: 0