There are going to be little victories that we claim even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.
I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished and when you're done don't make your hobby your job.
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.
In this business if you don't pay your debts you're finished.
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.
But when the work was finished the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work to love its beauty and to wonder at its vastness.
The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says You're finished.
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty but when I have finished if the solution is not beautiful I know it is wrong.
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 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's bad art.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Art is never finished only abandoned.
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.