I believe you must find the things in life that you love, and don’t let anybody or anything stop you. There may be lesser successes, but you’re never a failure unless you choose not to do something. I don’t fail unless I quit. You must believe to receive.
Television does devour you because you have all sorts of responsibilities, and I really needed to renew myself. I think I owed it to myself. So I honored myself and quit. I think that’s a wonderful way to put it.
If I got too famous, I’d just quit acting, but I think it’s highly unlikely I’m going to get really famous.
I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in the towel. I can’t handle it. I can’t do it. I can’t be what they need you to be.
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don’t look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide.
Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I’m ready to quit after number two.
I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle… in Los Angeles… so there ya go.
I’m not going to ask for a trade, because when I play for a city, I’m going to fight for it and I’m not going to quit.
I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
The main reason I quit was my lower back. I’ve had problems for a few years. It was affecting my movement and power. I had to have various injections and procedures.
I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.
I’m elected. I don’t report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I’d quit tomorrow. I’m not tall, dark and handsome. They don’t vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can’t get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like what I do.
I’m trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There’s no point concentrating on the 50 when it’s not in the Olympics. I’m not going to quit the 50 but it’s not my priority any more. I’ll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.
We need to quit appeasing our adversaries, and we need to stand with our allies.
I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He’d just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
I never quit. The times when I have quit in the past because I couldn’t face trying harder have stayed with me, and the guilt is not worth it.
Americans love popcorn, and their love doesn’t quit.
I don’t know what it is in me that refuses to quit, but I think it’s kind of like, dare to dream.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
The interesting thing about football is that football is the only sport where you quit playing when you get a lead.
My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I’d quit school he’d pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.
I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.
I’ve known for years that you’re supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what’s happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I’m not present.
If there’s a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I’ll quit playing it.
When I quit all these things and said I didn’t have any time, I meant I didn’t have any time.
You can quit smoking and lose weight at the same time.
Before I even got ‘Saturday Night Live,’ I was already known as the furthest thing from a goat boy. I had a stand-up routine, which I was all ready to do on HBO, before ‘Saturday Night Live,’ so if my routine was dependent on being a goat, I would want to quit.
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
It was right after I dropped the song ‘Don’t,’ and it started to go viral a little bit. That’s when I was like, ‘Alright, I might have something here.’ Actually, I wasn’t even going to quit my job, but Timbaland called me – we have a mutual friend – and he was like, ‘Yo man, you need to work in Miami.’
Really, my biggest risk was just the initial step to quit my day job to do music. I was packaging and shipping for an art gallery in Manhattan; I went to school for painting, so I always wanted to work around artwork, even though I wasn’t really contributing anything to the scene.
I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.
When you’re in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that’s the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that’s, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.
What we have to quit talking about is border wall. We need border security.
I quit flying years ago. I don’t want to die with tourists.
When I became the CM in 2002, I had to quit the boards of some institutions, where I was a member.
I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so.
My motto is, ‘Never quit.’
I’m a true fighter. No one will ever make me quit.
Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
In boxing there are only two ways out: you get knocked out or you quit.
Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.
I read ‘The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success’ every day. The first time I read it, I was 35, depressed, and about to quit surfing.
My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
When I started really playing music, I pretty much quit sports. I quit everything.
My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids – there were four of us. There was no money.
What ultimately makes ‘The Wire’ uplifting amid the heartbreak it conveys is its embodiment of a spirit that Barack Obama calls ‘the audacity of hope.’ It is filled with characters who should quit but don’t, not only the boys themselves but teachers, cops, ex-cops, and ex-cons who lose their hearts to them.
If I’m exhausted and I just don’t feel like it, then I don’t do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I’m the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it’s very easy for me to take the next day off and then quit exercising.
I joined Khalsa College just opposite Don Bosco in class XI, but soon I quit studies and was sent to Bangkok by my father to learn martial arts, as that is the only place we could afford given that I would also work there to support my training.
After I quit my band, I definitely was so full, like I’m so full I could never eat again. I had that kind of feeling where the elements, like the touring stuff, were harder for me and I definitely felt fine not experiencing it again.
I was working at Papa John’s full-time. I had just quit my part-time job at UPS. I was there for two years.
I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
I quit the media game. I’m out. I’m done.
Of course, I’m sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn’t get to quit on my own terms.
Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge – whether it’s coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this ‘post-traumatic growth.’
I’ll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness – I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.
I don’t care if I get nominated for fifty-eight Grammys, the day I can’t go back to where I came from, I quit.
