Unfinished Projects 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.

[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt started more creations than were ever finished since Genesis—and finished none.

This man will never finish anything. He thinks about the end before he thinks about the beginning.

I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

I got songs; I just never release them. I don't know why. A lot of people say I need to put it out. I guess I haven't made it my focus.

I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.

I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

I had so much anger and judgement towards myself for my work not being up to the standard that I expected it to be, so I wouldn't allow myself to complete anything.

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.

I don't talk about films even after I sign them because between the signing and the shooting, anything can happen. I am not superstitious, it's just that I don't like talking about a film that is not completed.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.