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Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up. -- Ryan Sheckler
If you're working, and you're not trying to be great, give up. -- George Lois
If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up. -- Steve Lacy
You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead. -- Philip Johnson
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
That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. -- Kurt Busch
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. -- Ella Fitzgerald
I think any time someone's dreams are crushed, there's the people who can fight to still try and fulfill those dreams and then there's the people who just give up. -- Constance Zimmer
The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying. -- Callie Thorne
I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages. -- Marcus du Sautoy
I try to give a voice to teens, who might be afraid to speak up about difficult issues, and a platform for parents and teachers to have frank, meaningful discussions with those young people. -- Sharon Draper
If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new. -- Peter Diamandis
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. -- Anne Lamott
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed. -- Harmon Killebrew
I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up. -- Krist Novoselic
Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.' -- Carlos Pena, Jr.
I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about trying to get my father healthier, and there were moments when he was healthier. Then someone would give him a drink. I always felt if he had one person in his life who supported his healthy side, he'd be on his way. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover. -- John Crowley
You do sometimes watch performances and just think, 'I may as well give up. I won't reach that. I may as well give up.' But then there are other actors you watch and just think, 'Oh my God, yes, I want to try and do that. Try and be like that'. And Bryan Cranston is someone who I'd like to try and be like. -- Tom Mison
For me giving up is way harder than trying. -- Kanye West
Tamaki: You're the one giving up without even trying. -- Bisco Hatori
I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life. -- Leon Spinks
Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing. -- Eckhart Tolle
I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself. -- Guido Palau
Trying harder doesn't always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up. -- John Bingham
Trying harder doesn't always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up." -- John Bingham
Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me. -- Taya Kyle
There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. -- Jay Samit

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