Quitting Quotes - Page 25

• Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because its scary.

  Tyler Farr

  Artist, Thinking, Scary

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• When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  School, Fifty, Graduates

  "An Open Letter to Joe the Plumber from Don the Factory Worker" by Donald Ray Pollock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2008.

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• I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

  Lloyd Waner

  Years, Play, Age

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• The minute you make a record because you think somebody's going to play it on the radio is the minute you ought to quit.

  Chris Thile

  Thinking, Play, Records

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• My dreams kept me trying when I could have quit.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Dream, Trying

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• A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

  Alber Elbaz

  Song, Book, Writing

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• A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love so I'm going to make it my career.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Jobs, Hate, Careers

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 9, 2008.

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• I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Medicine, Smoking, Important

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• I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

  Jonathan Hickman

  Book, Reading, Years

  "Newsarama's 9: Jonathan Hickman + Secret Warriors #1". Interview with Chris Arrant, www.newsarama.com. January 29, 2009.

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• I don't smoke, drink alcohol well, or play games. But I watch dramas. It is hard to quit.

  Yoseob

  Drama, Games, Play

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• In our competitive world we're taught to never quit trying, never give up, and never give in - so we don't hear much about surrendering. If winning is everything, surrendering is unthinkable. Even Christians would rather talk about winning, succeeding, overcoming, and conquering than yielding, submitting, obeying, and surrendering. But surrendering to God is the heart of worship.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Giving Up, Heart

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• A buddy of mine was addicted to heroin and he told me that people who say quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting heroin are wrong.

  Russell Brand

  People, Heroin, Cigarette

  The COMPLEX Interview, www.complex.com. May 25, 2010.

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• Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Expression, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press

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• When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Jobs, Fun, Work

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• I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

  Maya Angelou

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Thinking

  Dr. Maya Angelou (2009). “The Heart of a Woman”, p.55, Random House

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• My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Passion, Political

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• I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.

  Albert Camus

  Morning, Health, Smoking

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• Therefore with idle hands and head I sit
  In late December before the fire's daze
  Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

  Allen Tate

  Christmas, Hands, Fire

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.103, Macmillan

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• The unfinished is nothing.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Unfinished

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• There are things about quitting the smoking habit for which nobody prepares you. Did I have any idea that I would indulge in long, drooling-nay, dribbling-lascivious dreams in which I was still wreathed in fragrant blue fumes? I would wake with the complete and guilty conviction that I had sinned in word and deed while I was asleep.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dream, Blue, Ideas

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.184, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Quitting is not an option. I will not let anyone on this team quit.

  Herman Edwards

  Motivational, Team

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• There is no quit in me.

  Larry Holmes

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• God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.

  T. D. Jakes

  Grace And Mercy, Acting, God's Grace

  T. D. Jakes (2007). “T.D. Jakes Speaks to Men, 3-in-1”, p.507, Baker Books

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• I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.

  Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

  Marriage, Husband, Advice

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• I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s and kind of ruined my life. So I quit art school to get involved in music and I've been doing it ever since.

  Michael Gira

  Art, School, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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