Quitting Quotes - Page 32

• Respect Dhoni's decision to quit. We should respect his incredible contribution to Indian cricket. Can't measure in words. Probably his quitting came one Test early.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Dhoni, Decision, Tests

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• Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

  Pete Seeger

  Men, Average, Firsts

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• If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

  Little Richard

  Hate, Ice, Trying

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• My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting, and working around the house?

  Boo Weekley

  Home, Hunting, Years

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• I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.

  Tom Petty

  Couple, Outlook On Life, Years

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• Lance Bass needs to quit worrying about outer space and celebrate life by learning how to kill his own food.

  Ted Nugent

  Space, Worry, Needs

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• Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Reading, Heart, Artist

  Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.11, Vintage

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• It is always to early to quit.

  Norman Vincent Peale

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• Set reasonable goals; not something vague and unrealistic like "I want to be super-model skinny." I always had visions of very thin actresses in my mind when I was at the gym and it seemed so unattainable that I would quit any health regimen before it even got off the ground. But when I changed my mindset to focusing on making the healthiest choices possible for myself, it was a lot more realistic, more attainable, and then the results were visible.

  Alison Sweeney

  Goal, Choices, Mind

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• When I was 20, I was contemplating quitting. I was at the first event of the season and I overhead a conversation between two girls. One told the other, "God still loves you," and that caught my attention. Later that day, I caught up with the girl and asked her what she meant. Before then, I'd never really thought about God. But there was an undeniable stirring in me and I couldn't ignore it.

  Kelly Clark

  Girl, Love You, Two

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The only part I miss about driving is driving. That's it. I don't miss all the other stuff that goes along with it, all the other PR stuff. Anybody, when they quit driving, they miss the driving part.

  Kyle Petty

  Missing, Stuff, Driving

  "A CSJ Conversation with Kyle Petty". Interview with Chad Bonham, christiansportsjournal.com. January 16, 2017.

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• A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.

  Christian Keiber

  Artist, Failing, Should

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

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• When I woke up later, I had established all these businesses and we were growing and everything was going well and I was miserable because I was chasing money and not happiness. I decided that day in August that I would quit chasing money and start chasing passion and allow the money to grow around me...I wanted to have passion in my life to show my girls to live by passion.

  Drew Waters

  Girl, Passion, August

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• What makes a show good for me, personally, is a mystery that just doesn't quit. I want to know why. Why did this happen? Why is this phenomenon occurring? Why did that person do that? A series is really good to me that takes its time in answering those questions.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Want, Mystery, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• Now I know that if I'm in a fight or a big argument with executives or the studio or whoever, and it's getting to a point where it's starting to get bad, I don't have to have the fear of, "Am I strong enough to see this through? Would I really make a stand here? Would I really quit over this issue?" And I know in my heart that there is a place where I would walk away. I don't have to make it about my ego. I don't have to make it about whether I'm being strong enough or tough enough.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Strong, Heart, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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• I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

  George Washington

  Believe, Choices, Political

  George Washington (1838). “Monuments of Washington's patriotism: containing a fac simile of his publick accounts kept during the revolutionary war; and some of the documents connected with his military command and civil administration; together with an eulogium on the character of Washington, by W. Jackson”, p.13

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• The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.

  William Safire

  Jobs, Stress, Exercise

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• No church group that knows spiritual warfare has wiener roasts or even passion plays. There is a real warfare. I have said before that we are an arrogant, self-styled bunch of believers. We "believe" to the point of inconvenience - and then quit.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Spiritual, Real, Believe

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• I'll quit eating meat when you get a cow out here to beat me at a poetry slam. Only so many words rhyme with 'Mooo.' I mean, yes, we're supposed to be better stewards; yes, we're supposed to take care of the earth; yes, we're supposed to honor the sacrifices made by the animals; yes yes yes yes yes, but dammit, we're in charge, and you know why? It's because of these [holding out thumbs]...Maybe you think that carrots are less important than cows. I think they're equal, especially in a sauce.

  Sherman Alexie

  Mean, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• I just want to inspire all those people who gave up and said 'I quit,' Never give up!

  Gabby Douglas

  Giving Up, People, Inspire

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• I never quit. I never quit.

  Carlos Zambrano

  Never Quit

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• Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mean, Men, Class

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.250, Knopf

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• When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

  Graham Parker

  Darkness, Rope, Found

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• There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.

  George C. Scott

  Bottles, Done, Shooting

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• I'm a festive guy to begin with and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I went all out on this one costume. It's a ghoul that makes me approximately 10 feet tall when I wear it. I actually got an offer to work at a haunted house because the costume is so great, and I did it for about an hour and a half before I got too cold and had to quit to go inside. Michigan winters are no joke.

  Andre Dirrell

  Halloween, Holiday, Winter

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