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“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Book Enough Dream Half Novel Five Giving Up Six Dozen Publishers Turned Down

Author:Ian Rankin

“Most people have this perception that you have to be out there running for an hour and a half every day. But you don't have to give up your career and family to run a marathon.”

People Giving Running Hours Half Careers Giving Up Perception Marathon

Author:Jeff Galloway

“If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.”

Ifs Thinking Way Love Giving Persons Half Risk Couple Giving Up Losing Behave Privacy Love Someone Your Freedom If You Love Someone

Book:Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“I feel like half the battle is not giving up and staying positive. If you don't have anyone in your corner or anyone in your ear, being positive helps you believe that you can get through it.”

Ifs Giving Feels Believe Helping Half Battle Giving Up Ears Corners Staying Not Giving Up Being Positive Stay Positive

Author:LaMarcus Aldridge

“There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.”

Way Giving Half Lord Honor Giving Up Possession Plenty Our Lord Other Half Half Way

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Every time you want to reset your set and pull walls out and reset the lighting, you're burning up half an hour to an hour, and when you're trying to keep to a schedule, you're constantly having to reassess what's worth it and what you're going to have to give up in order to keep on schedule.”

Want Giving Trying Order Hours Half Wall Giving Up Burning Worth It Schedules Lighting Reset

Author:Duncan Jones

“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.”

Want Life Inspirational Giving Inspiration Goal Half Knowing Sacrifice Integrity Giving Up What You Want Not Giving Up One Half Goals And Ambitions Knowing What You Want

Author:Sidney Howard

“Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.”

“However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing. I remember one time I looked for the stone for almost an hour before I consented to ask the other half of me where I'd hidden it, only to find I hadn't hidden the stone at all. I had merely been waiting to see how long I would look before giving up. Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.”

“Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are granted, words are enchanted, the honest and brave make it safely through to the last page and the baddies either have to give up their wickedness for ever and ever, no going back, or get ruthlessly written out of the story, which they hardly ever survive. Also in fairy stories there are hardly any of those half-good half-bad people that crop up so constantly in real life and are so difficult to believe in.”

“She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.”

Giving Made Wanted Half Century Identity Husband Giving Up Obliged Servitude Half A Century

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I knew how to succeed was to try harder than anyone else. Dogged persistence is what got me through life. But here was something I was half-decent at. Being able to run great distances was the one thing I could offer the world. Others might be faster, but I could go longer. My strongest quality is that I never give up.”

Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

“The six rules of maybe 1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold onto it. 2. If you known where you want to go, you're already half way there. Know what you desire but, more imporantly, why you desire it. Then go. 3. hopes and dreams and heart's desires require a clear path-get out of your own way 4. Place hope carefully in your own hands and in the hands of others 5. Persist, if necessary 6. That said, most importantly-know when you've reached an end, Quit, give up, do it with courage. Giving up is not failing-it's the chance to begin again.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Giving Heart Said Ends Dream Hands Desire Chance Half Known Path Clear Failing Giving Up Six Quitting Persist Hopes And Dreams Begin Again Half Way

Author:Deb Caletti

“I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore.”

Way Giving Waiting Hours Half Giving Up Rivers Bottom My Way Shore Muddy Patiently Waiting

Book:Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel

Source: Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel