You always say ‘I’ll quit when I start to slide’, and then one morning you wake up and realize you’ve done slid.
‘Enlightened Rogues’ we made like the earlier ones: whatever tune came up, whatever direction it went in, that’s the way it went. That’s what we’ll always do. I think if we ever stop doin’ that, we ought to quit.
Colorado does not shut down. Colorado does not quit. Colorado does not break.
I had had to quit a few jobs in North Carolina because of how anxious they made me.
What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.
There’s no quit in Keith Thurman.
My advice: Don’t quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn’t give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.
My career is one of people involvement. I’m a promoter of the people, by the people, for the people. My magic lies, my people ties, this is what I want to do. I’m in it to win, I cant give in, I can’t give up and I cant quit. Victory is mine. Working together works.
Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’t see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It’s the one that makes the sweetest sound.
I remember when I was on ‘Saturday Night Live’ my first year, and I wasn’t getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.
I feel like the situations you go through, they make you who you are and there’s clearly no quit in me.
If you don’t quit, and don’t cheat, and don’t run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’t see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It’s the one that makes the sweetest sound.
I just hated the law. I wasn’t cut out for it. I couldn’t imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.
Walk away from medical professionals who dismiss your concerns, and don’t quit searching until you find someone who will truly partner with you to find the answers you deserve.
I’ve fired quite a few, but I’ve never had an employee quit on me.
It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.
If you know you’re just fighting for the money and you’re not fighting for the championship, you’re going to lose, so I thought, ‘It’s time for me to quit.’
I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.
I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.
I’ve always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from.
You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.
If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is in financial management.
For me, the most difficult move was when I chose to quit modelling and applied for a position of an assistant director.
I by no means quit social media.
I have quit chewing tobacco and don’t touch any lager beer, and I don’t speak to the girls at all. I am getting to be a perfect hermit; my fiddle, my dog, and my gun I almost worship.
If you don’t know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the ‘Pink Panther’ theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I can’t. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.
My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.
Did I want Britain to remain in the E.U.? Yes. Did I fear the consequences if we quit? Yes. Did I argue passionately for that during the referendum? Absolutely I did.
Follow your dreams. It’s always too early to quit.
During my teens and early 20s, I proved to be anything but what most people expected Billy Graham’s son to be. I’m so thankful he never gave up on me or quit loving me.
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn’t let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, ‘I’m going to quit,’ he’d be like, ‘No, you’re going to try everything and keep going at it.’
Bharatiya Jan Sangh and its founder Shyama Prasasd Mukherjee, who hailed from West Bengal, quit his job as a minister and fought for the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Ours is a party of fight and fightbacks.
I quit steaks for a while, but it’s a hard habit to break.
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through… whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell’s music, I look at it and say to myself, ‘I’m going to quit – why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?’
I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.
I am a competitor, I am a Virgo, and for me, I would never quit anything.
My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.
Everybody asks me, ‘Lee when did you know it was time to retire?’ I said, ‘when they quit asking me to coach.’ After the Orlando Renegades, not many people were busting down my doors to coach, so why not do something else.
I had once decided to quit acting when Chattakari’ didn’t do well at the box office.
I’ve always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would’ve had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.
I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn’t want to sit and learn the scales.
Americans never quit.
It was very, very difficult to be a student in the drama department and also review my professors’ school shows. I got a lot of pressure from them to quit the paper and concentrate on studying dramatic literature.
There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through. I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
When you have a big vision, if you focus on that vision, you’ll get it. But most people quit because it gets too hard.
When I decided to become a Christian and decided to change my life and just totally quit screwing up, it was like, ‘Wow, why didn’t I do this before?’ No hiding anything. I just felt so much better, not only about myself, but my future, my family. It was awesome, and it didn’t take me long to realize that.
I had to turn down films and plays because I had a job, and I could not take up better job offers that required me to relocate, because I did not want to lose the link with theatre. It was a huge decision for me to quit my job.
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
My dad had to quit school when he was in third grade. My mom had to quit school. They didn’t know what I needed, and I didn’t know what I needed to keep wrestling and go to school, so that’s why I had to go to community college.
Historically, Democrats have shown they are willing to do just about anything to win elections. Republicans must quit taking the high road and fight back with everything we have.
Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.
It’s very easy to fool yourself that you’re working, you know, when you’re really not working very hard. I mean, I’m very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go – quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.
There were some times when I just wanted to quit making music.
There was no pretense to objectivity; ‘Time’ had a partisan Republican point of view, and if it was one not shared by many of its gentrified Ivy Leaguers, few felt the compulsion to quit.
You play football, rugby, tennis. You do not play boxing. When a sportsperson is in a game, when it gets too much, you quit. But in boxing you can’t quit. You have to be taken out.
One night I saw Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis for a dollar, if you believe that, in an open-air concert. Presley, I got to meet and go into his house and so forth. My wife says I should quit tellin’ that story, ’cause they’ll know how old I am.
