Completed Work Quotes:

NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

- Arthur Schopenhauer

source: Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

topic: Long, Mind, Generations, Completed Work

Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics.

- Sheldon Lee Glashow

topic: Together, Research, Physics, Particle Physics, Completed Work

It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score as a conductor watches the film on a huge screen, often gives a fimmaker the first real glimpse of his soon-to-be-completed work. That's where the magic is.

- Robert Paul Wolff

topic: Music, Real, Giving, Completed Work

I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers. The writers are in it for other reasons. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. All you get is the pleasure of a completed task.

- Scott Adams

topic: Work, Believe, Thinking, Completed Work, Coworker

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

- Paul Russo

topic: Successful, Simple, Artist, Successful Artists, Completed Work

Had He not emerged from the tomb all our hopes, all our salvation would be lying dead with Him unto this day. But as we see Him issue from the grave we see ourselves issue with Him in newness of life. Now we know that His shoulders were strong enough to bear the burden that was laid upon them, and that He is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God through Him. The resurrection of Christ is thus the indispensable evidence of His completed work, His accomplished redemption.

- B. B. Warfield

source: Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.202, Library of Alexandria

topic: Easter, Strong, Lying, Newness Of Life, Completed Work

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

topic: Finishing, Cezanne, Painting, Completed Work

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

- Tennessee Williams

source: Tennessee Williams (1979). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.4, Dramatists Play Service Inc

topic: Art, Taken, Play, Completed Work