Quitting Quotes - Page 28

• I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Shadow, Valleys

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• I wrote a letter to my Dad - I wrote, "I really enjoy being here," but I accidentally wrote rarely instead of really. But I still wanted to use it, so I wrote, "I rarely drive steamboats, Dad - there's a lot of stuff you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator." This letter took a harsh turn right away.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Dad, Humor

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• I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Night, Discipline

  The Writers Write Interview, writerswrite.co.za. February 10, 2015.

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• Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Writing, Long

  The Writers Write Interview, writerswrite.co.za. February 10, 2015.

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• At a very young age, I wrote down the goals that I had so I could always see what I wanted to accomplish. And I would look at that goal sheet and think "I still want to do this."So I'd decide "I'm not quitting."

  Michael Phelps

  Thinking, Goal, Age

  Source: www.parenting.com

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• I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.

  Kurt Cobain

  Jobs, One Day, Employers

  "Kurt Cobain: Lost Interview". Guitar World Interview, kuriakon00.tripod.com. July 22, 1993.

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• I was offered a job at the Cincinnati Post as their editorial cartoonist in a trial six month arrangement. The agreement was that they could fire me or I could quit with no questions asked if things didn't work out during the first few months. Sure enough, things didn't work out, and they fired me, no questions asked.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Fire, Agreement

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• We all know smoking is bad. I know I'm going to quit someday, if I thought I wasn't I'd quit now.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Smoking

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• I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

  George Carlin

  School, Needs, Study

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was kicked out of everything that I didn't quit. Kicked out of schools. Kicked out of summer camp, the Boy Scouts, the altar boys, the choir, and something else that I can't think of, that I'm proud of. Anyway, that was my pattern. I just began to invent myself early in life, and went out and did something about it.

  George Carlin

  Summer, Running, School

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all.

  George Carlin

  Being Yourself, Smart, School

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more art. I tell them to get up early and stay up late. I tell them not to quit. I tell them if somebody else is already making their work. My job is to be current with the discourse and not be an asshole. That's all I wanted in a professor.

  Dave Hickey

  Art, Jobs, Up Early

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Want, Saying Bad Things

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.

  David Boudia

  Gymnastics, Next, Gravity

  "A conversation with U.S. Olympic gold medalist diver David Boudia". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I quit my job and for almost two years I didn't tell anyone, not even my family or friends. And for those two years I enrolled in acting classes. I acted in some capacity every single day.

  Jay Ellis

  Jobs, Years, Class

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• You can try your passion for a while and see if it works and if it doesn't, at least you tried. I think that's why I quit my job and went back to acting. I said this is what I'm going to dedicate my life to doing because I didn't want to look up and say, "Man I wish I would have been an actor. I wish I would have tried."

  Jay Ellis

  Jobs, Passion, Men

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• Unfortunately, there's a big, bad new bully threatening ocean animals, climate change. We might save fish only to have them starve because of climate change. It seems like the problems just won't stop. That's what got me to quit my cushy University job and take a big pay cut to work on conservation.

  Mark Powell

  Jobs, Ocean, Cutting

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• I always quit while I am still inspired, while I could still write more. Never let the thread run all the way out.

  Jesse Michaels

  Running, Writing, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I just wanted to quit running. My coach, Tracy Walters, took me aside and told me that I had an opportunity few people ever get. He said that I could inspire the whole team because I was so small and unathletic.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Team, Opportunity

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• A lot of people these days are too ambitious; their sights are set too high at the start and they end up diving in too deep, quitting their day job too soon. They move to Vegas or wherever, make an all-or-nothing commitment before they're ready, and burn out.

  Phil Ivey

  Jobs, Moving, Commitment

  Source: cardplayerlifestyle.com

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• The last thing I want to do is hurt the club's chances of winning. I'm used to playing the game a certain way and at a certain level. When I can no longer do that, I'll quit.

  Chipper Jones

  Hurt, Winning, Games

  Source: www.foxsports.com

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• I've never retired. And I've never said, "I quit."

  Parnelli Jones

  Said, I Quit, Retired

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.

  Mary Kay Andrews

  Jobs, Children, Book

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• I think if you've won one, quit while you're ahead. I loved doing it, though. If you get an opportunity that great, grab it, as it won't come along again. Until I read in the papers I did it to 'rescue my career'.

  Tony Blackburn

  Opportunity, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Recently I quit caffeine. My doctor seems to think that 17 Diet Cokes per day is too much. In case you ever consider getting off caffeine yourself, let me explain the process. You begin by sitting motionlessly in a desk chair. Then you just keep doing that forever because life has no meaning.

  Scott Adams

  Coffee, Thinking, Doctors

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