Incomplete Tasks Quotes

Think nothing done while aught remains to do.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.

The unfinished is nothing.

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.

Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

I've never finished anything by Dickens.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised. . . Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein.

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the task is done. I've always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most.

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

I love doing the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle, even on the days I can't finish it.

My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works, and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important things still lie ahead.

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

My computer is littered with abandoned projects.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.

Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.