If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.
When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his. I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.
It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.
Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.
Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse!
I got out while they were still fighting to buy tickets to hear me. I believe in getting out when you're on top, and that's what I did.
One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
Bill Watterson, creator of the extremely popular 'Calvin and Hobbes,' did know when to quit and closed up shop while Calvin and his tiger were just about as fresh and funny as they had been on their first day in newspapers.
Stepping out of the spotlight when it's prudent to do so is a good thing.
The hardest time to tell: when to stop.
When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in. What will undoubtedly happen is I'll write one too many. The important thing is to recognize when you've written too many and stop there.
The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
When you begin to lose the fire a little bit and if you're not giving 100 percent out there, then it's time for you to leave because you'll end up getting hurt - I want to be able to walk away on top.
The thing I wondered about so much as a young artist, particularly when things weren't going well and I was really struggling, was, "Will I know when to give up? Will I know when I've suffered enough rejection? Will I know when to get out?"
