Pastoral Resources

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.

Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.

It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.

As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting.

I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.

For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.