Quotes tagged ‘Quitting’

“Burnout is an attractive diagnosis for the self-aggrandizing; it suggests that one’s job is uniquely draining, almost to the point of a medical emergency.”

— Katie Heaney, thecut.com

“Rio: You quit? Mike: I all the way quit. I’m goin’ farmin’ in Nebraska.”

— Elizabeth Meriwether, Rio, Lake Bell, imdb.com

“Brett Ridgeman: Are you still in? Anthony Lurasetti: I am until I'm not.”

— S. Craig Zahler, Brett Ridgeman, Mel Gibson, imdb.com

“Quitting can be hard for top performers. But sometimes, that’s the best thing you can do for yourself and your future.”

— Ramit Sethi, iwillteachyoutoberich.com

“Sometimes it isn’t a matter of pushing or quitting. Sometimes you just need a break from your goals.”

— Ramit Sethi, iwillteachyoutoberich.com

“Coach Boone: What are you? Team: Mobile, agile, hostile! Coach Boone: What is pain? Team: French bread! Coach Boone: What is fatigue? Team: Army clothes! Coach Boone: [Coach puts hand to his ear] Will you ever quit? Team: No! We want some mo', we want some mo', we want some mo'!”

— Gregory Allen Howard, Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington, imdb.com

“[talking on the phone] And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over…”

— Mike Judge, Milton Waddams, Stephen Root, imdb.com

“Joanna: So, where do you work, Peter? Peter Gibbons: Initech. Joanna: Ini—yeah, what do you do there? Peter Gibbons: I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch. Joanna: What's that? Peter Gibbons: Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used t…”

— Mike Judge, Peter Gibbons, Ron Livingston, imdb.com

“Catering Boss: I'm not paying you to do... whatever it is you're doing out here. Ricky Fitts: Fine. So don't pay me. Catering Boss: Excuse me? Ricky Fitts: I quit. So you don't have to pay me. Now leave me alone. Catering Boss: ...asshole. Lester Burnham: [stunned] I think you just became my persona…”

— Alan Ball, Ricky Fitts, Wes Bentley, imdb.com

“[at the dinner table] Carolyn Burnham: Your father and I were just discussing his day at work. Why don't you tell our daughter about it, honey? Lester Burnham: Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go fuck himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass t…”

— Alan Ball, Lester Burnham, Kevin Spacey, imdb.com

“Alice Cook: Why did you quit, Tom? Magnum: It was nothing earth-shattering. One day I woke up age 33, and realized I'd never been 23.”

— Glen A. Larson, Thomas Magnum, Tom Selleck, imdb.com

“Americans never quit.”

— Douglas Macarthur, en.wikiquote.org

“Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.”

— Jackie Robinson, jackierobinson.com

“That answer could involve psychology. Endurance may feel objective, but your ability to keep going — even if it means slowing down — is often ultimately up to you.”

— Lindsay Crouse, nytimes.com

“No one quits while they’re ahead. This isn’t France. It’s America.”

— Heidi Schreck, Chuck Rhoades, Paul Giamatti, imdb.com

“Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.”

— Ross Perot, ranker.com

“The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have."”

— Willie Mays, successories.com

“Oh, it was difficult. Very difficult. I'll say that to this day,. You know, a lot of people said when I was forty, I should quit, but I don't think so. You should play as long as you can and as long as you enjoy the game. In '73, I wasn't enjoying the game, so I quit in May, I retired, and they woul…”

— Willie Mays, baseball-almanac.com

“Yeah, I'm a great quitter. It's one of the few things I do well. I come from a long line of quitters. My father was a quitter, my grandfather was a quitter. I was raised to give up.”

— Larry Charles, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“That's it. This is it. I'm done. Through. It's over. I'm gone. Finished. Over. I will never work for you again. Look at you. You think you're an important man? Is that what you think? You are a laughingstock. You are a joke. These people are laughing at you. You're nothing! You have no brains, no ab…”

— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com