It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. — J. R. R. Tolkien
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. — Philip Roth
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future. — Simon Schama
Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started. — David Allen
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. — Henry Luce
There Is No Failure. It's Only Un-Finished Success. — Raja Ravi Varma
Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished — Carol Ann Tomlinson
The single biggest time waster in the world is not completing what you start. — John Nance Garner
So little done, so much to do. — Cecil Rhodes
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities. — Mahatma Gandhi
What has passed is already finished with.
What I find more interesting is what is still to come. — Emil Zatopek
A design isn't finished until someone is using it. — Brenda Laurel
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. — Buddha
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps. — Uta Hagen
Failure is success in progress — Albert Einstein
Unfinished Business Image Quotes
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
We Have Unfinished Business Quotes
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. — Russell M. Nelson
As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country. — William Safire
The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die. — William Sloane Coffin
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
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. — Madeleine Albright
If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is. — Thomas Merton
Door’s locked,” he said. “And we have unfinished business. — Becca Fitzpatrick
Is None Of Your Business Quotes
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours. — Epictetus
What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people. — Wayne Dyer
What others think about you is none of your business. — Jack Canfield
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business. — Ze Frank
Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.' — George Will
What you think of me is none of my business. — Larry Winget
It's not failure, it's unfinished success.
The Indian Bureau system is wrong. The only way to adjust wrong is to abolish it, and the only reform is to let my people go. After freeing the Indian from the shackles of government supervision, what is the Indian going to do: leave that with the Indian, and it is none of your business. — Carlos Montezuma
What people think of you is none of your business. — Deepak Chopra
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business. — Martha Graham
As our voices rise in protest, the NSA monitors your every phone call. if you have a cell phone, you are under surveillance. I believe what you do on your cell phone is none of their damn business. — Rand Paul
Unfinished Work Quotes
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. — Constantin Stanislavski
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. — George Macdonald
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. — Xavier Becerra
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
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. — Golda Meir
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced. — Abraham Lincoln
Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short. — Jeff Ament
Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.
One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage. — Christopher Willard
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of equality, as Lincoln also noted, was a "proposition." To make it a reality remained "the unfinished work" of Americans. — Ronald Takaki
Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun. — Unknown
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. — Benny Carter
Unfinished Quotes
and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song — Rainer Maria Rilke
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. — J. R. R. Tolkien
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats
Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat the well enough so they don't want to.
There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done. — John Ruskin
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. — Lyndon B. Johnson
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam. — Edward Kennedy
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.
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. — Robert Kavanaugh
Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly. — George Weigel
In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings. — T. S. Eliot
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. — Maurice Nicoll
. . .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. — Sara Zarr
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else.
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. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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. — Chelsea Manning
Either get busy living or get busy dying.
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result. — Henry Cloud
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. — Cesc Fabregas
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. — Hillary Clinton
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. — James Patterson
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what. — Salman Rushdie
Liberty is always unfinished business — Havelock Ellis
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. — Anita Brookner
I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon. — Chip Kelly
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. — Robert Updegraff
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. — Suzanne Collins
When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business. — Russell M. Nelson
I know from my own life that you can’t move forward unless you reach out and deal honestly with the past. The truth is that when it comes to race and class, Boston has a lot of unfinished business. We must not be afraid to talk about it. — Sayings
Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy. — Brian Tracy
The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count. — Wally Amos
Life should be an unfinished business. — Colin Fletcher
You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right. — Caroline Myss
My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBT rights the unfinished business of the 21st century. — Chelsea Clinton
Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Richard," Kahlan said, "what about Siddin? Weselan and Savidlin will be worried sick over him." Her green eyes gazed deep into his. She leaned closer, and whispered, "And we have unfinished business in the spirit house. I believe there is still an apple there we have yet to finish." Her arm tightened around his waist, and a little twist of a smile came to her lips. The shape of the smile caught his breath in his throat. — Terry Goodkind
From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you going to be James Bond? You should have been, you could have been, you may have been. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It was like unfinished business in my life. I couldn't say no to it this time around. — Pierce Brosnan
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got 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. — Bette Howland
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. — Anita Brookner
Patience is a part of boxing. After I had missed out on the Olympic gold medal in 1984, a lot of people tried to talk me into turning professional quickly to make money. They told me that the next Olympics in Seoul would be boycotted again, that I was wasting my life, blah blah. But I still had unfinished business. I wanted the gold medal, and I got it in 88. Only then was I ready to turn professional. — Lennox Lewis
I take running for president and being president really seriously. It's a - maybe the toughest job in the world, right? And I knew that there was unfinished business from the successful two terms of President Obama, whom I had served, but that we needed to go further on the economy, on health care, and so much else. — Hillary Clinton
Becoming world champion is something I have worked at for my entire career. It doesn't matter to me that my first title shot is at a different weight. The opportunity is at super-middleweight and I am going to take it. But that doesn't mean I am forever going to be restricted to the super-middleweight division. I've still got a lot of work to do, a lot of unfinished business at middleweight. — Chris Eubank, Jr.
We know that President Obama and his accomplishments, that there's a lot of unfinished business there. — Kellyanne Conway
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. — Kellyanne Conway
It felt after the Bonds, after my four outings as James Bond, there seemed to be unfinished business. And the way that the Bond finished in my life and the demise of Bond going off stage left into the night, it seemed like there was a certain void there, as they say, of unfinished business. — Pierce Brosnan
For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt. — Alix Kates Shulman
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. — Mary Antin
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. — John F. Kennedy
Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history - empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves. — Hillary Clinton
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. — Chogyam Trungpa
God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexplicably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture. — Shams Tabrizi
Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent. — Jeanette Winterson
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