Quitting Quotes - Page 21

• It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada... The rest just quits!

  Paterson Ewen

  Perseverance, Canada, Painter

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• Any artist who doesn't think he's the best should quit.

  Harold Town

  Artist, Thinking, Should

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• [Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn't writing.

  Kirby Larson

  Writing, Son, Years

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• Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.

  Arthur Lynch

  Life, Thinking, Should Have

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

  Adam Rapp

  Running, Sky, Forever

  Adam Rapp (2011). “33 Snowfish”, p.45, Candlewick Press

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• 18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".

  Joe Satriani

  Football, Team, Giving

  "Joe Satriani: The Satch Tapes". Music, Video, 1993.

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  Easy is not a option..No days off..Never Quit..Be Fearless..Talent you have Naturally..Skill is only developed by hours and hours of Work

  Usain Bolt

  Skills, Fearless, Days Off

  FaceBook post by Usain Bolt from Jan 28, 2014

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• If writing is your passion, write and don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don't need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it.

  Bindu

  Jobs, Writing, Passion

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• Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka.

  David Letterman

  Drinking, Believe, Economic Sanctions

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• We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.

  Tony La Russa

  Trying, Facts, Alive

  "A postgame interview with Tony La Russa". MLB interview, stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Today is not the day you quit. Nor is it the day you cry. Today you know that you have all the passion and wisdom to find that quiet center of solace, serenity and strength necessary to create and sustain an authentic life.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Passion, Serenity

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• Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: "Who stronger? You? Me?" Always the answer was the same: "I stronger." Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Father, Years

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• He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he quits the common rank of life, steps forward beyond the lists, and offers his merit to the public judgement. To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, May

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.149

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• Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Thinking, History

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• There's no quit in our family. Our dad was the chief proponent of that. [On the set] we were constantly telling each other, Stay true to the story, we know that we love each other, keep communication open. We knew how unique this was-you're doing a movie that really could be put out there all over the world, and you're telling this personal story about your family.

  Andrew Shue

  Dad, Communication, Unique

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• When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."

  Sandra Bullock

  Hate, Looks, Actors

  "Sandra Bullock and Alfonso Cuarón Talk Gravity, Conveying the Physics of Space, Training for the Film, Seeing It for the First Time and DVD Extras". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 30, 2013.

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• I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing creature, and still am, I guess. It's sort of simplistic to think that one tries to make stuff that accounts for one's repulsiveness as a person, but there's some truth to it. So, when I read something unfavorable, I always take it deeply personally. It's as if my efforts have been in vain, and I should just quit.

  Chris Ware

  Kids, Thinking, Effort

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds

  Rich Franklin

  Fighting, Winning, Broken

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• Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that... As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.

  Pythagoras

  Soul, Different, Body

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• Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties

  George Washington

  Ocean, Peaceful, Care

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.488

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• At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was depressed. My mom said, 'Don't give up! You'll be so mad at yourself.'

  Janel Moloney

  Mom, Giving Up, Couple

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Jobs, Guy, Waiting

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• The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

  Tim Ferriss

  Perfect, Method, Decent

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• Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  World, Forget You, Forgetfulness

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.405

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• A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

  Horace

  Blood, Skins, Leeches

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