If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- John Cage, (Sep 5 1912-1992), US composer, poet, essayist, painter, pianist; His avante-garde, inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas, e.g. with 12-tone scales, profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music.