Quitting Quotes - Page 18

• I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

  Wendy Liebman

  Teacher, Class, People

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• I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Writing, If I Could

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• I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

  Isaac Marion

  Book, Writing, Giving

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• I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

  Barry Mann

  College, Years, Architecture

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• Quit jumping over our feelings!

  Jeremy Davis

  Jumping, Feelings

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• Hey I think the Urban Meyer rule is in effect right now... When the going gets tough... QUIT.

  Maurice Jones-Drew

  Thinking, Hey, Urban

  "Critics question injured QB's toughness" by Tom Rock, www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2011.

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• I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

  Jen Lancaster

  Stories, Ends, Story Of My Life

  Jen Lancaster (2010). “My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is t he New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto”, p.23, Penguin

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• Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude

  Jean Genet

  Men, Solitude, Different

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore

  Don DeLillo

  Jobs, Writing, Fiction

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I just loved being in the gym. It was tough at times. Sometimes I wanted to quit, but I'm glad I stuck with it.

  Kevin Durant

  Tough, Sometimes, Stuck

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life can be a fearful thing. Everyone needs someone drawing alongside, saying “You can do it. Don’t quit.” Everyone needs someone who believes in them. Everyone needs encouragement.

  Dave Earley

  Encouragement, Believe, Drawing

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• Quit dwelling on the negative things people have said about you. You don’t have to have everyone’s approval. You have God’s approval.

  Joel Osteen

  Dwelling, People, Negative

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• Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?

  Janet Yellen

  Cutting, Trying, Body

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• Network marketing is the only industry that allows common people to earn millions with a minimal investment and zero overhead, coupled with total time freedom and the joy of global travel. There are three magic words that worked for all of us who have made it to the pinnacle and they'll work for you: 'Just don't quit.'

  Mark Yarnell

  Time, Zero, Freedom

  Mark Yarnell, Rene Reid Yarnell (2010). “Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams!”, p.287, Three Rivers Press

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• Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.

  Orrin Woodward

  Leader, Blame

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• Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  Book

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• Toughness isn't about you and what you want, it's about not quitting because others need you.

  Marc MacYoung

  Needs, Want, Need You

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• Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Often Is, Evil

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.312

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• I'm not single, I'm just wait for my girlfriend to quit playing hide and seek.

  Tim Walters

  Girlfriend, Being Single, Waiting

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• Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you're hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually cares about what you're doing.

  Amber Naslund

  Thinking, Community, Marketing

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• Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

  Rumi

  War, Faces, Thee

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.514, Delphi Classics

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• Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Lying, Hate

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• We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

  Pythagoras

  Suicide, Men, Permission

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• If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: 'We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.' 'The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...' What he intends to do is try and get elected. That's all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: 'This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.'

  Will Rogers

  Country, Night, Hands

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• Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he's at work. Business says, 'Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we'll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.'

  Will Rogers

  Recovery, Buying Things, Politics

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