Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
quote by Richard Nixon
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Persistence
Persistence
is staying in the game
until the end.
When you run a race,
persistence is not the winning,
but the finishing.
Whether you are, first or last
it doesn’t really matter,
so long as you get to
the finishing post.
20 May 2008
poem by David Harris
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The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.
quote by Susan Estrich
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Living Life
upon a race
to win
one must dash his way
towards
the finishing line
it could be like life
when we want to win
we dash
to such speed that we
ignore the faces
of those
beside us
we imagine the cheers
and the awarding
ceremony
you know very well
life is never a race
and the finishing line
is kept concealed
there is no point dashing then
or ignoring those behind
or beside us
life is living life
moment by moment
glass per glass
chew carefully what our
forks carry inside our
mouths,
savor, don't rush,
intertwine, commune
on bare feet feel the
texture of the ground.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The Olympics and Life
The Olympics is a reflection of life
as it has it's winners and losers
one minute your on a high
the next you can get knocked down.
If you want to achieve your dream
it will come through hard work
as the more you put in to it
the greater the rewards will be.
Sometimes you get just one chance
a Golden opportunity to succeed
but if your not ready it can slip away
someone else can take it from your grasp.
In Sport nothing is handed on a plate
lots of blood, sweat, and tears, along the way,
and in life it can be just the same
but you just have to keep on going.
But some people get tired and give up
when victory can be just around the corner
it don't matter how many times you fall down
just as long as you always get back up.
So life is a Marathon and not a sprint
with many hurdles and obstacles to get over
but if you keep going at a steady pace
you'll get to the finishing line in the end!
poem by Kevin Halls
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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.
quote by Chester Brown
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It Is Lovelier
i find it lovelier
to just see
the one i love
without
having to
take the
finishing touches
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
quote by Peter Gabriel
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
quote by Gabriela Sabatini
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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
quote by Bill Gates
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Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.
quote by Laurell K. Hamilton
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I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.
quote by Dean Cain
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A mouse will put the finishing stroke to a castle wall.
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
quote by Truman Capote
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We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.
quote by Donal Logue
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The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.
quote by Franz Halder
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Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
quote by Greg Anderson
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I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.
quote by Trevor Rabin
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There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
quote by Gene Tierney
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I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
quote by Carroll O'Connor
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