#giving up

I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile. ↗

— Chris Burke

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The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that. ↗

— Garry Marshall

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I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

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When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music. ↗

— Tom Petty

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I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up. ↗

— Kenneth Edmonds

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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

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I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. ↗

— David Antin

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I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well. ↗

— Billy Koch

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