Quitting Quotes - Page 20

• You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.

  Hank Aaron

  Wall, Home, Player

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• O tell me, friends, while yet we part, And heart can yet be heard of heart, O tell me then, for what is it Our early plan of life we quit; From all our old intentions range, And why does all so wholly change? O tell me, friends, while yet we part!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Heart, Doe, Intention

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1863). “Poems”, p.26

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• "There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived is true." A profound psychological mistake. It is true only of formal logic, wherein the mind never quits the sphere of its first assumptions to pass out into the sphere of real existences; no sooner does the mind pass from the internal order to the external order, than the necessity of verifying the strict correspondence between the two becomes absolute. The Ideal Test must be supplemented by the Real Test, to suit the new conditions of the problem.

  George Henry Lewes

  Real, Mistake, Two

  "Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science" by George Henry Lewes, (Ch. 4), 1864.

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• I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.

  Joseph Gurney Cannon

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  "Uncle Joe Cannon" by L. White Busby, (p. 278), 1927.

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• Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.

  Jim Carrey

  Jobs, Mean, Kids

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

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• My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing and I'm having fun then just continue to do it. But if it's not fun for me anymore and I'm miserable, then I'm going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest.

  Selena Gomez

  Mom, Fun, Texas

  "Q&A: Selena Gomez on turning 21, Bieber, new album". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. July 26, 2013.

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• My goal is to never quit.

  Andrew McDermott

  Goal, Never Quit

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• It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.

  Chris Gardner

  Failure, Failing, Okay

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• Satisfaction is like death. The day I'll be satisfied, I'll quit

  Juhi Chawla

  Satisfaction, Satisfied

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• There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed morning sunlight, which comes to us like a bright-winged angel beckoning us to quit the old path of vanity that stretches its dreary length behind us.

  George Eliot

  Morning, Blessed, Angel

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.133, ShandonPress

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• I was in Chicago in 1994 and at this time I had no thoughts of coming back and playing the game of basketball, Bryon Russell came over to me and said, "Why'd you quit? You know I could guard you." When I did come back in 1995 and we played Utah in '96, I'm at the center circle and Bryon Russell is standing next to me. I said, "You remember what you said in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' Well, you're about to get your chance.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Thinking, Utah

  "Michael Jordan Offers Scalding if Not Scolding Comments at Hall Induction" by Rick Morrissey, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 12, 2009.

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• He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  School, Caring, Knowing

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? - he had better quit.

  Rex Stout

  Character, Two, Fiction

  "Talk with Rex Stout "by Lewis Nichols, The New York Times, November 15, 1953..

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• Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Book, Writing, Solitary Life

  H.P. Lovecraft (2008). “Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.549, Hachette UK

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• To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.

  John Ashcroft

  Embarrassing, Knocked Down

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Hurt, Pain, Stupid

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• [President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.

  Peter Jennings

  Country, Secret, President

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• I've had every known chemical - cocaine, booze - and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Suggestions, Watches, World

  Launch.com, October 10, 2003.

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• For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Children, Winter, Thinking

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• All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago

  Larry Hagman

  Hero, Years, Guy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and robbers, it was an experiment that anyone could quit at any time and minimal safeguards were in place. You must distinguish hind sight from fore sight, knowing what you know now after the study is quite different from what most people imagined might happen before the study began.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Kids, College, Knowing

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• The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.

  Oliver Hazard Perry

  Effort, Battle, Triumph

  "History of the Navy of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1856.

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• You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign.

  Steve Rauschenberger

  Campaigns, Asking, Raises

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• Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.

  Evan Harris

  Patience, Art, May

  Evan Harris (2005). “The Art of Quitting”, Cassell Illustrated

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• The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit.

  Evan Harris

  Perseverance, Long, Outcomes

  Evan Harris (2004). “The Art of Quitting: When Enough is Enough”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

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