#finishing

Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#bit #bookstore #clubs #down #esoteric

It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell, she was compelled to walk the entire wall, no matter the obstructions in her path (beer cans, branches). This compulsion, applied to other fields, manifested itself as "intelligence." Every unknown word sent her to a dictionary--in search of something like "completion"--and every book led to another book, a process that, of course, could never be completed. This route through early life gave her no small portion of joy, and, indeed, it seemed at first that her desires and her capacities were basically aligned. She wanted to read things--could not resist wanting to read things--and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive. On the other hand, that she should receive any praise for such reflexive habits baffled the girl, for she knew herself to be fantastically stupid about many things. Wasn't it possible that what others mistook for intelligence was in fact only a sort of mutation of the will? ↗

— Zadie Smith

#compulsion #desires #finishing #intelligence #joy

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon. ↗

— Sid Meier

#civilization #couple #developing #development #finishing

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time. ↗

— Michel Patini

#best #career #finishing #football #good

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#finishing #first #go #here #rewrite

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#finishing #happiness #inspirational #success #inspirational

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#important #more #races #racing

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. ↗

— Truman Capote

#book #child #finishing #just #like

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be. ↗

— Bill Gates

#close #dream #even #finishing #pc

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. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#colleges #development #finishing #large #large majority