At this point I gave up the day job and concentrated on television.
In the end, I gave up and returned to Porto Alegre, embittered by the failure of my penitential trip.
Consequently, in protest I gave up riding altogether at the age of 14.
But ultimately I gave that up and found the Pillsbury pre-made dough that I roll out and decorate with my children.
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To be sure, I gave up a share of the company, but I have always been clear that my goal is to make Little Pim into the most widely-used language-teaching program for young children.
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The reason I gave up watching is because after a few seasons it suddenly struck me that in all the road trips he has made, all the places he has eaten, he has yet to find anything that is less than awesome.
My friends and I grew up Knicks fans, but we all gave up on the team after years of mismanagement.
When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.
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When I finally got up from the table to network elsewhere, I gave my seat in true gentlemanly style to Carol Loomis, a fierce competitor at Fortune Magazine.
One day, I gave it all up to return to the hectic roller coaster that is life at a startup.
"I woke up and my doctor gave me the news, and I fell back down in grief and I started to cry, " Jackson said.
Once, I got sentimental and tried to summon up days gone by, but Clara put on her icy armor, and I soon got the message and gave up on nostalgia.
The first time my dad ever heard me speak was at SMW, and when I gave the keynote speech last year, the venue happened to be in the same building I grew up in, three floors above my childhood apartment.
Once out in traffic, I appreciated how the electric motor assistance gave me the necessary speed to keep up with the red double-decker buses.
When I went looking for information about Apple on my iPhone, the process was so frustrating that I finally gave up.
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"To be fair, I also gave employees the right to sign up with the boss of their choice, " says Kim.
After I did this three or four times I gave up, complaining to my girlfriend how clunky the process was.
My husband met me at about 75 feet on the way up and I gave him a wink and a smile because I knew at that point that I'd done it.
After failing to find jeans in my size at three different locations of the same store, I gave up and purchased something else to satisfy my desire to just buy something.
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When I woke up twice in the middle of one night, my Up band recorded this and gave me a cheeky tip about sleep the next day.
"He gave me the parameters, and until I screw up, he's letting me run with it, " Zillo said, adding that they will vary the types of meetings in each city.
It makes me so grateful for who I am today and for all the people who never gave up on me.
Similarly, many of the Peace Corps volunteers I served with gave up good jobs -- as engineers, teachers, IT professionals -- to leave home for a couple of years and find the enduring fulfillment that comes from leaving your comfort zone and improving the lives of strangers you have grown to know better than your neighbors back home.
Like many writers, I once dreamed of writing the great American novel but gave that up in an attempt to write the great American screenplay.
"I gave up sports so I could spend more of my spare time at the computer learning about programming, " he said in his testimony to the Senate Judicial Committee.
"I walked into the office and he got up, smiled, gave me a big hug and he said, 'Now, I'll tell you what, man, that's one of the things I like about you, you say what's on your mind, ' " the vice president recounted.
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"Generally, I come up with a name that has something to do with what gave me the impulse to draw it, " he tells CNN from his company's headquarters in the fashion town of Prato, Italy.
Ms. Linkfield, who also confesses she has a text-message alert that whistles ("I was getting dirty looks" for that, she says), gave up on the line's Quiet Commute cars.
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