Quitting Quotes - Page 24

• I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

  Hill Harper

  Dream, Jobs, Homeless

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• Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. It will constantly take you places you never thought you could go. This has been my mantra for years. I always remember I won't do things right on the first try. So failure is mandatory for success!

  Terry Crews

  Years, Trying Something New, Feelings

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked One Life to Live.

  Tika Sumpter

  Passion, Boss, One Day

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• A man loves a woman so much, he asks her to marry - to change her name, quit her job, have and raise his babies, be home when he gets there, move where his job is. You can hardly imagine what he might ask if he didn't love her.

  Gabrielle Burton

  Baby, Jobs, Moving

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• I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.

  Judi Shekoni

  Giving, Trying, Acting

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• The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!

  Billy Gibbons

  Band, Enough

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• Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

  Michael J. Fox

  Jobs, Order, Ironic

  Michael J. Fox (2011). “Always Looking Up”, p.29, Random House

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• To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.

  Rob Machado

  Sports, Life Changing, Wave

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

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• You'll hear people say it's racist to test. Folks, it's racist not to test. Because guess who gets shuffled through the system oftentimes? Children whose parents don't speak English as a first language, inner-city kids. It's so much easier to quit on somebody than to remediate.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Humor, Kids

  "President Bush Addresses Taxes, Social Security in Independence, Missouri". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. August 21, 2001.

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• I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

  Andrew Pyper

  Cutting, Law, Imagine

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• Quit while you're a head, that's what I say.

  Terry Pratchett

  "Soul Music" by Terry Pratchett, HarperTorch, (p. 49), May 2000.

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• When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

  Danger Mouse

  Thinking, Good Times, Having A Good Time

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• When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

  Angie Stone

  Winning, Never Quit, Taught

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• I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

  Tom Seaver

  Artist, Pitching, Paint

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

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• A computer is a wonderful and friendly machine, because it's always just a little better than you are. You're always a little bit behind, but it stays right there with you anyway. It allows you to make the mistakes, and then to try to find out what the mistakes are, and then to repair the mistakes. It's always your friend. It quits on you, but it doesn't leave the apartment.

  Frederick Barthelme

  Mistake, Trying, Friendly

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• Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others - indeed as anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit.

  David Bayles

  Art, Irritation, Giving

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.14, Image Continuum Press

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• If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.

  Hamilton Jordan

  Election, States, National Security

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• I understand why so many female comics quit or change their path, because it is hard. It's hard to be a comedian, and people have so much aggression towards women. I don't really know where that comes from, but I feel a total responsibility, and I'm gonna do my part, to continue on the path that I'm on.

  Amy Schumer

  Responsibility, People, Comedian

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Harold Ramis really got my career going and was a friend for a long time. I was doing a play in L.A., and he came to see it a few times and recommended me to Ivan Reitman for Ghostbusters 2. Six months later, I quit real estate and was acting for good, and it was really because Harold took an interest in me and made a phone call and did stuff that people don't usually do, even if they like somebody.

  Kurt Fuller

  Real, Phones, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you are at your lowest in life, no matter where you're at, you have to keep on going. You can't quit. You can't let it break you. You have to keep going on because life keeps going on and you have to keep going if you want to be the person you want to be.

  La'el Collins

  Want, Matter, Break

  "La'el Collins Q&A: Cowboys Rookie on Murder Investigation and Draft Plummet". Interview with Bleacher Report, bleacherreport.com.

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• I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.

  Steve Martin

  Today, Firsts, Comedy

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.

  Dolly Parton

  Trying, Never Quit

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• My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each time I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out.

  Dorothy Arzner

  Philosophy, Way, Directors

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• I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.

  Missy Peregrym

  Sports, Jobs, Vancouver

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• It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Doe, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bliss Perry (1926). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.199, Courier Corporation

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