I quit ‘Splash!’ because I couldn’t dive off a 3 m. board.
I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.
Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.
I’m not telling anyone, ‘Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.’
I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn’t survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn’t realize how good they were.
When I quit my internship and started doing standup to pursue my dreams and do that full time – I feel like that’s when I ‘Americaned.’
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn’t live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
I think I’m probably gonna quit music.
I don’t think I would ever quit acting, but there are other things I am interested in. I wanted to be an architect, and I wish I knew more about landscaping.
When I read ‘Ray’ for the first time, I had just quit. When I read ‘The Last King of Scotland,’ I had just quit. I hadn’t quite quit when I read ‘Scandal,’ but I was feeling really unfulfilled as an actor.
If you quit once, it’s so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.
I constantly have people who quit their jobs just to go on the Internet and try to stop me at any and all costs.
I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong… I’ve always fought for what I believe in, and I don’t quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.
Back in 1995, I quit my job and joined AmeriCorps at the Hill House in Pittsburgh’s legendary Hill District.
We never quit.
I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.
I was a rapper. The reason I stopped rapping was because I realized that people wanted guys like Puff Daddy. That’s not what I do. I quit. That was it. I had to sacrifice for my choice. I said, ‘Forget it. I’ll be a producer.’ Nobody was going to make me do anything.
Stop looking for the ‘right’ career, and start looking for a job. Any job. Forget about what you like. Focus on what’s available. Get yourself hired. Show up early. Stay late. Volunteer for the scut work. Become indispensable. You can always quit later, and be no worse off than you are today.
The Pandoras began as a ’60s punk group. Then they went pop, then metal. When they went metal, I quit because I hate heavy metal music and I wanted to write my own songs.
Nothing is over until you quit.
It is easy to go vegan in Palestine, which is where I quit eating food with a face. The vegetables and spices are one of a kind, and you don’t even miss the meat.
Everybody has barriers to overcome, some more than others. I don’t want to act like I’m all that unique. America’s full of stories like mine. This is a special country with enormous opportunity for those who don’t quit.
Never get involved with a business that you can’t really be hands-on – that if your employees quit, you can’t run yourself. If I can’t cut hair, why open a barbershop?
The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
At its root, ‘quit’ means ‘to set free’ – think of an acquittal in a court of law – and to quit is often to be liberated.
I can’t tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can’t maintain that same work level in 2001, so I’ve got to quit something.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.
I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn’t too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88′ and we finished recording Mother’s Milk at the end of 89′, next thing I know I’m in Spin with a sock.
I’m about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.
I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don’t know to quit smoking.
Being a novelist is hard for anyone – male or female. You don’t get to quit your day job.
You may defeat me in a final vote, but you’ll never get me to quit.
I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.
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?
In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, ‘No, you’re going to stay with it.’ Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.
At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.
It can be a daunting prospect for any player to know that his opponent will never, ever quit.
Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.
I faced challenges as a kid, but who hasn’t? A lot of people have experienced far worse. I was bullied, sure, and it was painful at the time. I even quit high school to get away from it. But I’ve never been the kind of person to let my past predict my future.
Tobacco marketing often reaches children and youth and entices them to start using tobacco while they are still at an impressionable age. Nearly four out of five high school cigarette smokers will become adult smokers, even if they intend to quit in a few years. By the time they want to quit, they’re hooked.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
You know, I didn’t have enough money to quit my day job… the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.
I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
Once a heroine is beyond a certain age, she has to graduate to mother’s roles or quit.
I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can’t I smoke?
You may get real tired watching me, but I’m not going to quit.
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
I feel pretty used by the music industry, in that my contracts are written in such a way that I don’t get paid. And that makes me wanna quit working for whoever thinks it is that I work for them. But I’ve clearly got a job that I can’t quit.
I am not a person to quit. If something needs harder work then I will put my head down and do it.
I’m the type of person that doesn’t quit. I just keep going and give my best effort because I don’t want to look back on my life when I’m, like, 80 or 90 and say, ‘Man, I wish I would have done this, I wish I would have done that.’ I basically go out and do it.
Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he’s still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!
It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the ‘New York Magazine’ as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the ‘Herald Tribune’ to stay home with my young daughter.
Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.
When I’m in a situation where I’m working physically, I think I can push myself mentally. I’ll never quit. But I think mentally, I probably suffer a little bit with self-confidence and stuff like that. I’m probably not very vocal and I’m not much of a leader.
I quit drinking, smoking, doing anything bad.
After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just wanted to take a year off. And I had a friend that lived in Los Angeles, said I could crash on his couch. And so I just kind of did the first really spontaneous thing I’d done in my young adult life.
I’m a man who has failed in many areas, but the one thing I don’t want to do is quit.
Why would I have quit Van Halen? It never happened.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.
The only thing as a kid that really mattered to me was that I wouldn’t quit. When I say ‘quit,’ I mean you wake up, you go to the piano, you go to whatever instrument, and you work at learning how to tell the truth.
