Disappointment Quotes - Page 31

• My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first.

  Anton Corbijn

  Character, People, Risk

  "Anton Corbijn’s Spy Games". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2014.

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• I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

  Bill Bryson

  Witty, Party, Book

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• For a while, I thought the great disappointment of my life was that I don't have a family of my own. Then it dawned on me: That's not what I think; that's what married people think.

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, People, Married

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• I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.

  Paul Watson

  Thinking, Promise, Littles

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• One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

  Tom Stoppard

  Eye, Anxiety, Relief

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• It's easier to live with disappointment than regret.

  Andre Agassi

  Regret, Easier

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• It is difficult to look at any newborn baby and accept that he or she will necessarily encounter pain, challenges, disappointments, and hardships in life. Yet even the Savior needed to "go forth, suffering pains and afflictions . . . of every kind" (Alma 7:11), the only difference being that Jesus, though tempted, did not sin (Hebrews 4:15; see also D&C 45:4). Even harder to comprehend, however, was how that precious Babe of Bethlehem, whose birth we celebrate each Christmas, would one day bear the weight not only of our sins but also all our infirmities.

  Eric D. Huntsman

  Baby, Jesus, Pain

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• Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Achievement, Individual, Portions

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• Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.

  Henry Ford

  Chance

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• A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

  B. F. Skinner

  Errors, Might, Quitting

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• Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Winning, Persistence, Accomplishment

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• Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.

  Dale Carnegie

  Two, Accomplishment, Achievement

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• I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone.

  Bill Cosby

  Achievement, Way, Clue

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• Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Awful, Genuine

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• Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

  Winston Churchill

  Achievement, Matter, Lasts

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• The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross of Jesus Christ is all about. There is no pattern without the cross. There is no Good News without it. That is what the gospel is all about.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Heart, Mind

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• Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Giving Up, Faces, Succeed

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• Despite disappointments, the Christian is obligated to pray for the sick because we are bidden to do so and because the crumb of our caring is but a morsel broken from the whole loaf of the Father's infinite and tender love.

  Catherine Marshall

  Christian, Father, Caring

  Catherine Marshall (1995). “Catherine Marshall: Inspiration Writings”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.

  Catherine Marshall

  Loss, Blessing, Frustration

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• Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept our infertility treatments as consolation prize. Our jobs are supposed to be our highest priority. We are expected to overlook the connection between our disappointment, the impossible ideology of equality, and the contraception that makes that ideology appear to be possible.

  Jennifer Morse

  Jobs, Accomplishment, Priorities

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• The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.

  Warren Buffett

  Lessons, Faults, Managers

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• We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.

  Thomas Sowell

  Regret, Persistence, Etc

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.85, Basic Books

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• You must never give up. You must remember that you have to take risks in order to achieve anything and sometimes you will suffer defeat. But the mark of any individual is to recover from defeat and disappointment and go on and give it his best shot.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Giving Up, Order, Risk

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• One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second Lord of the Rings film and having Gandalf in it. Why? He died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell 1000 more seats? It's daft.

  Nick Frost

  Giving, Trying, Firsts

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• I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

  Carolina Kostner

  Humble, Thinking, Ups & Downs

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