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• If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won't like you. It may not be easy, but it's essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Meaningful, Art, Hurt

  Cheryl Richardson (2012). “21 Days to Master Extreme Self-Care”, p.7, Hay House, Inc

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• The lows are disappointing but that makes the highs much sweeterThat's what drives you to compete.

  Tim Tebow

  Lows

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• I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

  Victoria Wood

  Writing, Scary, Pages

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• No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Imagination, Expectations, Arrogance

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.275

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• It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it.

  Tim Henman

  Tennis, Knees, Bees

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• I was a vegetarian when we shot the first film(Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle), and I generally eat organic as much as possible. I know this is so disappointing to the audience, which is why I don't talk about it a lot, but I don't smoke weed, I don't eat fast food.

  Kal Penn

  Weed, White, Firsts

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• For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.

  Alan Watts

  Real, Trying, Collaboration

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• What is really disappointing about this president is not just lack of leadership, but his tendency to always place the blame for his lack of leadership somewhere else

  Carly Fiorina

  Somewhere Else, President, Blame

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• It's disappointing being a Canadian and having friends on that team but that's the way it goes. It's the Olympics. It's disappointing for every Canadian but over the years you've seen the parity with all the teams because it's the best players in the world.

  Darren McCarty

  Team, Player, Years

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• Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Men, Long

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• Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.

  Chris Ware

  Secret, Bouquets, Curtains

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• My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.

  B. Traven

  Book, Men, Office

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• It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

  David Letterman

  Jerk, Admire

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

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• Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always
  high, and the results usually disappointing.

  Robert Orben

  Expectations, Pandas, Mating

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• What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Believe, Boys, Parent

  "On the Contrary".

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• You need to know that even as life develops in superficially disappointing ways, there is still fun to be had.

  Miranda Hart

  Fun, Needs, Way

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• You know I hate disappointing even one person, and I really hate disappointing everyone but I love burlington coat factory

  Michael Scott

  Hate, Coats, Factories

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• I would love to have the biggest band that I can have. I'd love to put on a massive show and just give people their money's worth, then just come away from it thinking, 'That was a good show', because it's kind of disappointing sometimes when you go and see someone and you can see they're not that bothered.

  Katy B

  Thinking, Giving, People

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• Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer. It is disappointing that the updated report relies on assumptions that are not in line with the reality of the marketplace.

  Kyle E. McSlarrow

  Reality, Years, Lasts

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• I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented-interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Night, Law, Bed

  Lecture before State Bar of California, San Francisco, Cal., 23 Aug. 1951

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• Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

  Joe Klein

  Inspirational, Winning, Campaigns

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• It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

  Eric Bana

  People

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• I hope I look skinnier in 3D. I hope I don't look three times as fat. That'll be disappointing.

  Kathy Bates

  Three, Looks, Fats

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• That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

  Peter Dinklage

  Actors, Done, Shooting

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2007.

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• The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Strong, Party, Two

  "State of the Union with Candy Crowley". www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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