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Finished Product Quotes

On the space between hard work and the end result.

This page gathers quotes contrasting a finished product with the process behind it, especially in animation and voice acting, where actors rarely see the final result while recording, connecting to ongoing change rather than a fixed endpoint.

You have to understand that when you're a voice actor on an animated film, you're really just a tiny little piece of this huge process. And when you finally get to see the finished product and see all of the...

Quotes by Phyllis Smith

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

Quotes by Patrick Carney

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

Quotes by Learned Hand

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

Quotes by Helen Mirren

Beautiful Quotes

Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.

Quotes by Gordon W. Allport

I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.

Quotes by Gary Ross

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

Quotes by Frank Gehry

There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

Quotes by Christian Bale

A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.

Quotes by Art Linkletter

Better Quotes

It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.

Quotes by Amy Ryan

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Frequently Asked Questions

What idea connects these finished product quotes?
Most of them push back against thinking of a finished product as the whole story, pointing instead to the process, the voice work behind an animated film, the personal growth behind a life well lived, as what actually matters.
Do any of these quotes come from voice actors specifically?
Yes, more than one discusses how a voice actor rarely sees the finished animated film while recording, since the voice work happens long before the visuals are complete. It's a distinctive, industry-specific angle for this topic.
Is there a quote here about personality or self-development?
Yes, one describes personality as less a finished product than a transitive process, arguing that even stable traits keep changing over time. It reframes the whole topic around ongoing change rather than a fixed endpoint.
Why would someone search for 'finished product' quotes specifically?
The phrase captures a common source of frustration, judging effort only by its final result, so these quotes offer a counterargument that's useful for creative or personal-growth contexts. It's a more focused search than a general quote about hard work.
How does this connect to quotes about character?
Several of these lines treat becoming a finished version of yourself as an ongoing effort rather than an achievement, which links naturally to the Character quotes page for readers interested in that theme.

For more on process and identity, see quotes about character as something that keeps forming, or the belief that something can always become better than its current state.