80 Slump Quotes

Following is our list of slump quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about having a slump.

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Famous Slump Quotes

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. — Johnny Bench

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece. — Leonard Cohen

A stumble may prevent a fall. - English Proverbs

A stumble may prevent a fall. — English Proverbs

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'. — Dr. Dre

Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse. — Vance Havner

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling. — Ovid

Falling on your face, at the very least, is a forward movement. — Pat Mitchell

Stumbling is not falling. - Proverbs

Stumbling is not falling. — Proverbs

Drop it like it's hot. — Snoop Dogg

To hit bottom is to fall from grace. - Douglas Horton

To hit bottom is to fall from grace. — Douglas Horton

To hit bottom is to fall from grace. — Doug Horton

Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop. — Sam Cooke

Do not look where you feel. Look where you slipped. — African Proverbs

Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall - Bob Ross

Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall — Bob Ross

Short Slump Quotes

  • The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury. — John Maynard Keynes
  • There were times when i felt in a slump or lonely but i never thought of giving up — Sandara Park
  • To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better. — Richie Ashburn
  • If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice. — Ichiro Suzuki
  • Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone. — Laurence J. Peter
  • When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. — Vance Law
  • When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done. — Dr. Seuss
  • Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting. — Yogi Berra
  • I had slumps that lasted into the winter. — Bob Uecker
  • I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately. — Tom Waits

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Having A Slump Quotes

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. — Hank Aaron

We always have the potential to rise. Rise out of our slump. Rise out of our negative thoughts. Rise out of our comfort zone. Rise out of our complaints. GET UP AND RISE. Rising is a choice that's one powerful thought away. — Kris Carr

A slumpbuster is when you have to take one for the team. It's finding the biggest, nastiest, fattest broad, and you put the wood to her to come out of your slump. Also known as 'jumping on a grenade for the team'. — Mark Grace

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump. — Carlos Beltran

Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead. — Charlie Brooker

There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'. — Darren Aronofsky

It's surprising how a minor slump in sales can have a huge impact, and can actually cut so significantly into margin that the company really feels it. — Ted Genoways

Now that I understand how publishing schedules work, I can understand why many authors have the sophomore slump. A year is a long time to wait for a sequel, but it's a short, short time to WRITE a sequel. — Patrick Rothfuss

During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers. — Dionne Warwick

President Bush's approval ratings have taken somewhat of a dive. A senior slump, if you will. Leading President Bush to one conclusion: He is the only one who realizes what a great job he's being doing. — Jon Stewart

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Read quotes by Johnny Bench

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More Slump Quotes

He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die! — Rick Riordan

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something. — Randy Harrison

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things. — Shania Twain

You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with my writing, I'll go and walk for a week. Walk and not see a human being. Something happens after four or five days which is quite wonderful. It is an ancient thing. Your sense of smell. Your hearing. They come back. — Doug Peacock

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it. — Mark Messier

Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take my insulin injection. I feared that if the Cubs found out and I slumped badly, they would attribute it to the diabetes and send me back to the minors - or worse, release me. — Ron Santo

Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps. — Roger Angell

The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression. — Ludwig von Mises

Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis. — Ludwig von Mises

Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what. — Shinzo Abe

Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump. — Ludwig von Mises

I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All texting eachother because they've given up on speech. — Dylan Moran

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. — Bob Lemon

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm. — Eddie Mathews

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off. — Frank Langella

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values. — Christopher Dawson

Don't want to slump over the oars. — James Genn

Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs. — Kamisese Mara

"I warn you," the boy went on. "I am a magician of great power. I control many terrifying entities. This being you see before you" - here I rolled my shoulders back and puffed my chest up menacingly - "is but the meanest and least impressive of my slaves." Here I slumped my shoulders and stuck my stomach out. — Jonathan Stroud

The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country! — Hunter S. Thompson

We're not even thinking about (the postseason) right now. We've been in a slump, so we're taking things day by day. We aren't looking to the future because we haven't addressed the present. — Cartier Martin

If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead. — Adam Haslett

Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath. — Sylvia Plath

You're going to go through times when you don't do too well, or you may have some slumps or get outpitched. Just keep going up there and having your at-bats, keep having your same approach and keep trying to make little adjustments like you do during the season. — Jason Heyward

More than anything, I’m excited to have the artistic freedom and opportunity to make a sophomore record. Everybody dreads the sophomore slump, whereas I am embracing it and can’t wait to either go down in flames, or take it to another level. It’s not going to be in the middle – it’ll be one way or the other. That’s how it has to be. — Aaron Bruno

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity. — J. K. Rowling

Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires... — Elizabeth Hardwick

There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, slumping ominously like the Dow Jones in 1929. — William S. Burroughs

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