Quitting Quotes - Page 31

• I never want to quit playing ball, They'll have to cut this uniform off me to get me out of it

  Roy Campanella

  Cutting, Balls, Want

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• A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

  Alber Elbaz

  Song, Book, Writing

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• I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Medicine, Smoking, Important

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• I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

  Jonathan Hickman

  Book, Reading, Years

  "Newsarama's 9: Jonathan Hickman + Secret Warriors #1". Interview with Chris Arrant, www.newsarama.com. January 29, 2009.

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• Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Expression, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press

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• When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Jobs, Fun, Work

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• I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.

  Albert Camus

  Morning, Health, Smoking

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• Therefore with idle hands and head I sit
  In late December before the fire's daze
  Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

  Allen Tate

  Christmas, Hands, Fire

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.103, Macmillan

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• There are things about quitting the smoking habit for which nobody prepares you. Did I have any idea that I would indulge in long, drooling-nay, dribbling-lascivious dreams in which I was still wreathed in fragrant blue fumes? I would wake with the complete and guilty conviction that I had sinned in word and deed while I was asleep.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dream, Blue, Ideas

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.184, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Quitting is not an option. I will not let anyone on this team quit.

  Herman Edwards

  Motivational, Team

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• If you're still drawing breath, God's not done with you yet. Don't quit. Be brave and believe God is for you.

  Beth Moore

  Believe, Done With You, Drawing

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• And I don't really drink alot of booze, alcohol will kill ya... but I smoke all the pot I can find, I don't smoke it all at once, I just do a little bit at a time, and I uh, I used to take acid but I quit around 1971.

  Tommy Chong

  Alcohol, Littles, Acid

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• Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he quit working? Exactly the same contention could be made about the sons of the wealthy who are left large fortunes. Yet the evidence suggests that, given economic freedom, people will generally choose to do that which interests them most. It is up to society to see that these interests are widened and that too requires investment.

  Pierre Berton

  Son, Men, People

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• Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

  Frank Abagnale

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Attitude

  "Catch Me If You Can". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Most people work fifty weeks a year so they can do this the other 2. Well the smart ones live in a ski resort, where the boss lets them have powder snow days off. And almost forty feet of snow falls every winter thats a lot of days off. A lot of doing what you moved here to do. Most major ski resorts are now so big that regardles of what kind ofjob you have in a city there's probably a job almost exactly like yours in a ski rsort like this. So quit your job and rent that U-haul trailer now so next winter this can be you. Not you just sitting there watching this and wishing that this was you.

  Warren Miller

  Jobs, Smart, Fall

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• When you view marketing from the vantage point of the guerrilla, you realize that it’s your opportunity to help your prospects and customers succeed. They want to succeed at earning more money, building their company, losing weight, attracting a mate, becoming more fit, or quitting smoking. You can help them. You can show them how to achieve their goal. Marketing is not about you. It’s about them. I hope you never forget that.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Opportunity, Views, Goal

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• My new year's resolution is definitely to quit smoking. I need to do it.

  Zayn Malik

  New Year, Years, Smoking

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• Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It's about the ability, courage, and commitment to end the war within oneself and not quit until the job is done.

  Richard Machowicz

  Jobs, War, Commitment

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• We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.

  Richard Machowicz

  Warrior, Men, Giving

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• Here is a fact: someday you will die. What will you do with this incredible gift that is your life? Do you want to get to the end of the road and wish you had strived more, accomplished more, and loved more? To do these things you will have to take chances, demonstrate courage, and commit in a way that allows you to be flexible but never allows you to quit on yourself.

  Richard Machowicz

  Wish, Want, Way

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• I fell into this business by accident. It wasn't something I ever aspired to be: an actress. It just happened. It has evolved into an insane passion... a creative outlet. But nothing more. It's my hobby... one of the ways I express myself as an artist. And the day it becomes a job... a career... I will quit...

  Shailene Woodley

  Jobs, Passion, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.

  Lynn Johnston

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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  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.'

  Jane McGonigal

  Change, Serious Illness, Smoking

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• The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Giving, Waiting

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• Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

  David Goggins

  Want, Moments, That Moment

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