I’m a wrestler with nine toes. I’m a wrestler who has been through a lot of battles. I get to do a lot of motivational speaking, and people are blown away and say, ‘You never quit. You keep coming back.’
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I’ve got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn’t ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
Unlike a typical professional, I can’t quit my job to become a full-time author; I don’t have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy; if I choose to write full-time, it might start feeling like work.
My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.
I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren’t listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
I was raised, right or wrong, you make a decision and you don’t quit. You fight your way through it; that’s what you did.
I certainly have no plans to quit the United States.
When the post-‘GBBO’ media frenzy began I gladly quit my job. I darted up and down the country, heading to meetings with publishing houses.
Homey don’t quit. What else are you gonna do? It’s like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it’s over they check the clock and go home. That’s how it goes.
I’ve been in Vegas. That’s where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That’s the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.
I don’t think many people want to say to themselves that they’ve quit. At the same time, we’ve all failed in our lives, we’ve all failed at different things in different ways and I think there’s a lot to be said about facing that failure squarely.
When you retire, it’s a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don’t quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.
If you’ve got an idea, start today. There’s no better time than now to get going. That doesn’t mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there’s always small progress that can be made to start the movement.
When the ‘Fight Club’ movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.
When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let’s quit trying to curry favor with them.
I’m very content to have great management and a great label. But for me, success started when my managers came to me and told me, ‘Go ahead and quit your job.’ I told them, ‘As long as I don’t have to wash dishes anymore, I’m good.’
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Yeah, my very first teacher when I was 6 was a big influence, because it was so boring that I quit guitar.
I work every day 100 percent, but I assure you that I’ll quit if my players don’t follow me.
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.’
Failure has never been a signal for me to quit; it’s always been a sign for me to go down another path.
Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it’s appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.
There’s moments where things are harder than others, and there are obviously questions, but when it comes down to it, there is no quit in me.
My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, ‘Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.’ And your parents are like: ‘O.K., I’ll quit my job. We’ll move to an Alpine community.’
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
Literally, I think I’ve quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.
I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
You’re not a loser in anything until you quit. Don’t quit.
I’m not one of these guys who says, Now I’m on a really hot show, better quit soon before I get labeled. That’s the most ridiculous notion I’d ever heard.
I’ll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.
When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn’t like fighting at all, so I quit.
In the national team, many guys quit, did not want to play, and we had a really young team, and we changed the coach. Many things happened for us.
If you have a line of business – I know this as a CEO – or if you have a teenager – I know this as a parent – who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
You hear a lot of drivers say they’ll quit when they’re not enjoying it. That’s pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.
When people get scared, they quit giving.
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Very early on, when I was in my twenties, Steve Jobs convinced me to quit college. He talked to me after I had spent about a year in Michigan studying the history of art.
I quit ‘Jhalak’ for ‘Balika Vadhu.’ I suffered from dengue; I was in ICU for three days, and then I quit ‘Balika Vadhu.’ I needed a change and wanted to experience new things.
With writing, you really have to have faith. You have to have some sort of confidence that if you keep at it, you will get where you need to go, because there are so many points where a rational person would quit.
The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and show people what’s in them when they read them, not tell them all about it ahead of time.
Quit now? They’ll have to cut the uniform off me. I’m going out for another 300. They couldn’t be any harder to get than the first 300.
In online learning environments, it is often hard to tell whether a student is struggling. By the time test scores are lagging, it’s often too late – the student has already quit.
The worst job I ever had was as a telemarketer for, oh, I don’t know, I think I made it about 90 minutes. I quit before lunch. I went in around 10:30 or 11 and said, ‘I can’t do this.’ It was horrific. I had too many people yell at me within that 90 minutes to be able to continue.
Most of the girls who were better than me went to college or quit tennis. It’s interesting to see who stuck around. It’s pretty crazy to see who was good in juniors, who tried going pro. A lot of people fall off and it’s really that difficult to get to each level.
I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people’s places. Within, like, six months, I was able to earn enough money from touring to rent a place again.
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.
I learned from my dad that there may come a time in life when you need to slow down and take a breath and deal with things, and that’s OK, but whatever you do… Don’t stop, and don’t quit. Even if it’s hard, you can’t be lazy.
I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.
For 14 years I had that run in Canada as a newscaster. When I decided to quit in 1953 I was making more money than the prime minister. Then I was a freelance actor for six years in Canada, the U.S., and England. Then ‘Bonanza’ came along and I had another 14 year run.
Never quit believing that you can develop in life. Never give up. Don’t deny the inward spirit that provides the drive to accomplish great things in life.
It is very, very difficult to quit when you’re losing. And nobody does it well.
I think people who really want to do something do it. No matter what. And they won’t quit until they do it.
