Quitting Quotes - Page 29

• Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!

  Edward Young

  Encouragement, Smoking, Men

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• Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

  Martha Beck

  Skills, Grace, Dull

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• For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

  Meat Loaf

  Real, Past, Years

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

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• Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.

  Virgil

  Love, Amor, Knows

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• We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due.  Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art.

  Seth

  Life, Art, Jobs

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• I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.

  Steven Wright

  Work, Opportunity, Self

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• I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter.

  Steven Wright

  Matter, Placebo

  "When the Leaves Blow Away". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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• We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Artist, Challenges

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• You will win if you don't quit

  Les Brown

  Winning, Ifs

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• I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

  Conrad Hall

  Thinking, People, Get Better

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• Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

  John Piper

  Tunnels, Way Forward, Waiting

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• Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

  George Allen

  Perseverance, Determination, Men

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• In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.

  John Locke

  Faith, Ideas, Judging

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.530

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• I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.

  James Caan

  Change, Kids, Talking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.

  John Locke

  Men, Hands, Desire

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.385

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• You can start over again! Don't even think about quitting now! It is easy to replay in your mind how things did not work, how much you lost, what you are going through, how angry you are. There is no amount of conversation or magic that is going to wipe the slate clean. You are wasting valuable time and energy that could be used to regain a new normal and start another version of your life. Even though you are hurt and you may be feeling down — stop kicking yourself! Face what has happened. Make the decision to start over again.

  Les Brown

  Hurt, Thinking, New Normal

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• Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

  James Thurber

  Memories, Men, Order

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.232, Library of America

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• I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

  Reggie Jackson

  Kids, People, Role Models

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• I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.

  John Mayer

  Media, Games, Done

  "John Mayer Gets Emotional On Stage: 'I Quit The Media Game' (VIDEO)", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

  Charles Williams

  People, Wish, Sin

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• Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit.

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Years, Care

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• When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Heaven, Despair

  William Danby, Edward Young (1832). “Extracts from Young's Night thoughts, with observations upon them”, p.102

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• There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Differences, Beats

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.220, Pan Macmillan

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• I learned to never quit, and academics always come first. I had to make sure to get my degree, because I learned that athletic ability and sports don't last forever.

  Arthur Jones

  Sports, Forever, Athletic

  Source: prointerviews.org

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• The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.

  Robert Stone

  Giving Up, Typewriters, Smoking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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