Never Quit Quotes - Page 13

• When you work for the thing you believe in You're rich though the whole way is rough- But work that is simply for money Will never quite pay you enough.

  Rebecca McCann

  Work, Believe, Pay

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• A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Boys, Men, Has Beens

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• I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Book, Character

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.24, Profile Books

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• I don't think there's a day that goes by that I don't feel like I've had enough and there's nothing left, but desire means...never quit.

  Jeff Hardy

  Mean, Thinking, Desire

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• But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Possession, Understood, Direct

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• I think it took me a little while to be true to myself as a designer, and in some ways I'm still trying to do that. I have to choose things that come naturally to me. Whenever I challenge something too much or try too hard, it never quite works out.

  Stella McCartney

  Thinking, Work Out, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, one of the biggest thrills is going to a theater and going, "Oh, I got a laugh!" Because you never quite get to hear it [otherwise].

  Jeremy Irvine

  Laughing, Theater

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney. This art form is so spectacular and beautiful. And I never quite understood the feeling amongst animation studios that audiences today only wanted to see computer animation. It's never about the medium that a film is made in, it's about the story. It's about how good the movie is.

  John Lasseter

  Beautiful, Art, Feelings

  "John Lasseter Returns to Hand Drawn Animation with The Princess and the Frog". Interview with B. Alan Orange, www.movieweb.com. March 13, 2010.

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• I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

  Don DeLillo

  War, Office, Vietnam

  "Intensity of a Plot". Interview with Mark Binelli, www.guernicamag.com. July 17, 2007.

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• You're never quite sure how you feel about a neighbor until a 'For Sale' sign suddenly appears in front of his house.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  House, How You Feel, Neighbor

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

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• I learned to never quit, and academics always come first. I had to make sure to get my degree, because I learned that athletic ability and sports don't last forever.

  Arthur Jones

  Sports, Forever, Athletic

  Source: prointerviews.org

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• Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Change, Success, Time

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• As important as it is to learn the techniques of cinematography, you also have to learn how to deal with the movie set, with show business. I came up with a cinematographer who is very talented, but she was never quite able to handle everything else you have to do - dealing with the producer and the crew and the time frame that you have to follow.

  Maryse Alberti

  Important, Technique, Able

  "The Female Cinematographers of Neon Demon, Creed, and Dope Discuss Their Experiences in a Male-Dominated Field". Interview with Kevin Lincoln, www.vulture.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

  Gotye

  Depth, Vulnerable, Should

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Have dreams/goals and never quit working toward achieving them.

  Adam Rodriguez

  Dream, Goal, Quitting

  "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.

  David Duchovny

  Sports, Book, Kids

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.

  Tony Blair

  Class, Royal, Middle

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm tired. I am old and I have never quit pursuing my goals. I am heavily involved in real estate right now, but I am trying to get out of it altogether, I am just tired.

  Larry Holmes

  Real, Tired, Goal

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doubt, Fiction, Failing

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Making music has been connected to one of my greatest heartaches, because my own music has never quite connected with audiences. But it was this heartache that pushed me to explore other artistic avenues, like writing and filmmaking, and I ultimately feel most at home in a multidisciplinary environment.

  Vivek Shraya

  Home, Writing, Heartache

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that, at least in my experience, it is difficult when there is unfinished work. That makes it difficult to think of dying when what you have to do is not quite done. Of course it's never quite done.

  Laura Huxley

  Thinking, Unfinished Work, Dying

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• I haven't written anything yet that makes me think, This is it! and I don't imagine I ever will. I don't know how it is with you, but when I finish something, even when I'm pleased with the results, it never quite matches the shimmering vision that was out ahead of me as I wrote.

  Debra Dean

  Thinking, Vision, Imagine

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.

  Harlan Coben

  Writing, Trying, Mountain

  "Harlan Coben on "Fool Me Once"". Interview with Sara Nelson, www.omnivoracious.com. March 31, 2016.

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• Work hard at everything you do. Never give up. Never quit. Many people have talents but without the hard work you won't get anywhere.

  Carli Lloyd

  Giving Up, Hard Work, People

  Source: fcblacklabel.blogspot.com

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• I've felt afraid as a reporter many times. Sometimes it's sharp, as in a bad moment, or a bad situation; other times it's general, as in a country known for kidnapping, where you can never quite relax.

  William Finnegan

  Country, Relax, Sometimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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