Everything is a work in progress
- Everything is a work-in-progress. Nicholas A. Basbanes
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We are works in progress…
- Everybody’s a work in progress. I’m a work in progress. I mean, I’ve never arrived. I’m still learning all the time. Renee Fleming
- Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers. Reid Hoffman
- Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change. Daniel Gilbert
- I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven’t seen. Ani DiFranco
- I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress. Barbra Streisand
- I try to give myself permission to be a work-in-progress and not have everything figured out at once. It’s more manageable and takes some of the pressure off of feeling like I have to have everything right all the time. Jewel
- I’m a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I’m doing my best, that my heart’s in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay. Stevie Wonder
- To arrive is to be in prison. Henri Matisse
- I’m a work in progress. Barbra Streisand
- I’m a work in progress. I’m trying to be better. Nate Parker
- I’m always a work in progress. Billie Joe Armstrong
- It’s a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I’m a work in progress; I have revelations every day. Rick Rubin
- Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress. PJ Harvey
- The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we’re a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. Carnie Wilson
- We are all forever a work in progress. I mean, that is the truth. You are forever in your whole life a work in progress. Sherry Lansing
- We are all just a work in progress. Mary J. Blige
- We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone. Adam Savage
- We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- When I look in the mirror, I see a work in progress. Cynthia Addai-Robinson
- You’re always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There’s always room to improve. Chalene Johnson
- You are a verb, not a noun. Not an object, but a continual becoming. You are a living, breathing and ever-changing human being in transit. A work in progress. As soon as you define yourself, you limit yourself. Ulysses S Grant, the war hero turned American president, said “The fact is, I think I am a verb, instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. We signify all three.” Aimee Davies
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…like incomplete works of art…
- …start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made…Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It’s the highest art. Sarah Ban Breathnach
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…that God is helping to craft
- God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexplicably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture. Shams Tabrizi
- We are His greatest handiwork even though we are still a work in progress. Gerrit W. Gong
- We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Tennessee Williams
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Knowing this, let go of the need for perfection
- We’re not perfect. We’re a work in progress. Donna Edwards
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Knowing this, there’s no reason not to love yourself as you are
- People mistake self-love for thinking they must always like what they see in the mirror – and yes, of course, that is the goal; that all depends on perspective – but my argument is that you can still have self-love while wanting to make progress or improve things. The main issue is that we attach too much to an idea of what our perfect body may be or what self-love should be. But that’s the issue. There is no right or wrong. We can love ourselves and feel bloated. We can love ourselves but feel uncomfortable in our skin. We are a work in progress and human and won’t always feel amazing. Danielle Tabor
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Works in progress are a true delight
- A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope. Steven Pressfield
- Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight. Max Frisch
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Great things take time
- Think about how long it took for the mountains to get there and look so beautiful. Think about how long it takes for this tree over us to grow. We’re so impatient. Think about it. This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We’re that. We’re work in progress. That’s actually being alive. Daphne Zuniga
- This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We’re that. We’re work in progress. That’s actually being alive. Daphne Zuniga
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Life is a work in progress
- I always try to remember that I am a work in progress. It is life’s journey that matters and the turns I take will determine how much progress I make. You see, I am unique in my gifts and the purpose I was created for. When I get to heaven at the end of my journey, I will not be asked what gifts He gave me, but what I did with them. Each one of us is a work in progress, with a mission and purpose to fulfill that is uniquely ours. Keep that in mind as you journey, won’t you? John C. Maxwell
- I don’t think balance is something you get from someone else; it’s something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress. Rachel Weisz
- My life is just a never-ending work in progress. Richard Simmons
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Our brains are work in progress
- Your brain – every brain – is a work in progress. It is ‘plastic.’ From the day we’re born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it. Michael Merzenich
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Human nature is a work in progress
- Human nature is a work in progress. Nick Bostrom
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Our relationships are a work in progress
- I’ve definitely been in relationships where I’ve given too much, and I’ve been in relationships where I haven’t given enough. I think it’s a work in progress. I have to find that person where it clicks. Ashley Greene
- People and relationships never stop being a work in progress. Nora Roberts
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Creating and creativity is a work in progress
- All creativity is a work in progress. Dean Cavanagh
- Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I’m unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I’m a complete work in progress in that area. Lauren Bowles
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Great writing is a work in progress
- I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress. Ashwin Sanghi
- Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I’m constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It’s a work in progress. Lauren Groff
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Music is a work in progress
- Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it’s oddly unnatural. Linda Ronstadt
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The spiritual quest is a work in progress
- I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress. Dan Brown
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Learning is a work in progress
- Every given moment includes limitation. What we were is not what we are now. Mistakes are intrinsic to the learning process, which is the fate of the human condition itself. David R. Hawkins
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Health is a work in progress
- A healthy person is not perfect but perfectible, not a done deal but a work in progress. Staying healthy takes discipline, work, and patience, which is why our life is a journey and perforce a heroic one. David Richo
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The principles we value and living up to them is a work in progress
- Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we’re as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned. Octavia Butler
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Democracy is a work in progress
- It’s not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We’re just human beings that are still a work in progress and there’s a lot that we’ve got to overcome, so that we can all be equal. Gloria Estefan
- But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. Daisaku Ikeda
- The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked. Amy Richards
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Journalism is a work in progress
- Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last. John Maxwell Hamilton
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Each country is a work in progress
- It’s the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what’s right, and shake up the status quo. Barack Obama
- Nations don’t start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress. Simon Schama
- The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation. Christopher Hitchens
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On a lighter note
- A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room. You enter its room with bravura, holding a chair at the thing and shouting, Simba! Annie Dillard
- The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. Philip Roth
