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 SmithTag: intelligence reading will joy completion desires starting compulsion finishing
I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.
Louis ZamperiniA little at a time until less becomes more and more becomes less on the other side.
Johnnie Dent Jr.Tag: goals-priorities finishing completing-goals
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 GaimanTag: inspirational success happiness failure finishing
Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.
Jonathan CarrollTag: reading-books resonance finishing apologies-to-secaucus-new-jersey
Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.
Don RoffTag: words writing writers writing-advice torture expectations writing-process tips revising tips-on-writing finishing
God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.
Johnnie Dent Jr.Tag: inspirational perserverance finishing winning-and-losing stick-to-itiveness stick-to-your-gut
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