Frustrating Quotes - Page 16

• A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'

  Daniel Goleman

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

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• With acting, it [auditioning] is very frustrating. I'm not very good at auditions. Sometimes I audition for a role and I'm like, I'd be really funny in that role, but I'm not good at auditions so I guess I'm not getting that role. It's a very frustrating job.

  Jim Jefferies

  Jobs, Acting, Roles

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

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• While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.

  Rahul Dravid

  Years, Answers, Firsts

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• When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

  Yuvraj Singh

  Country, Real, Play

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• I guess I dont come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they dont match up, I find it frustrating.

  Graeme Base

  Ideas, Looks, Want

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• There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

  Helen Cresswell

  Things In Life, Knowing, Knows

  Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

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• Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Daughter, Mother, Memories

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• You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.

  Ethan Coen

  Running, Animal, Different Experiences

  Source: collider.com

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• It's not great if someone gives you sort of bland praise without giving you clear direction and say, "This is good, let's try it like this." I have worked with someone who seemed quite inarticulate and just would say, "That's good, that's good." That's very frustrating because - it's nice to know something is good but you know it can always change.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Nice, Clear Direction, Giving

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 10, 2014.

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• I'm not going to retire because I want the money. We want honest athletes, but at the same time, you're going to have people saying, 'He's so greedy. He's made X amount of money, and he has to take that last little bit.' Yes, I do have to take that last little bit. I'm sorry if that is frustrating to some, but if they were in my shoes, they would do exactly the same thing.

  Steve Nash

  Funny, Sorry, Athlete

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• Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.

  John D. Voelker

  Men, Lakes, Sea

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• Although you do look at the big picture, if you're dealing with the now, it can be kind of frustrating. You're losing basketball games, things not going the way you want it to go or should go, but at the same time we've just got to stay with it. Just stay positive, just stay focused, as a team, as a unit, because the ship easily can sink early.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Team, Games

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• If I hurt somebody's feelings, I go right to them and talk to them and explain what happens. Sometimes I'm mad at myself because I left a pitch in the middle. It's big when you leave a pitch in the middle. When I make that mistake, it's frustrating for me. I have to think about what I did wrong and go to the next step.

  Carlos Zambrano

  Hurt, Mistake, Thinking

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• The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience...
  Sanity, wholeness and integration lie in the realisation that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate I or mind can be found .... [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Pain, Real, Lying

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• As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

  Andy Behrman

  Attitude, People, Get Better

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• I consider myself a pretty rounded guy. I've done pretty elite things in business, sport and academics and all of a sudden I woke up one morning and I'm a 'big, black, British, gay guy'. That was frustrating at times.

  John Amaechi

  Sports, Morning, Gay

  "Walking Tall". news.bbc.co.uk. July 23, 2007.

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• Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.

  Mark Kingwell

  Struggle, Book, Writing

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.22, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

  Jason Katims

  Friday, Night, Light

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• It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.

  Shane Carruth

  Interesting, Answers, Want

  "Shane Carruth Explains Why ‘Upstream Color’ Isn’t So Difficult to Understand and Talks About His Next Project". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. April 3, 2013.

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• I'm feeling better after the game than I did when I came off the floor with cramps. ... I was going to try to give it a go, and 'Spo said 'No.' You know, after I came out of the game, they kind of took off. And it was frustrating sitting out and not being able to help the team.

  LeBron James

  Team, Feel Better, Nba Championships

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• Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

  Ridley Scott

  Writing, Ideas, Blade Runner

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you." It's hard for me not to have a bad thought when someone says that to me, since if there's anything this business is not, is glamorous. It's only glamorous for maybe five minutes every now and then.

  Zoe Saldana

  People, Want, Like You

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 4, 2009.

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• I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."

  Zoe Saldana

  People, Want, Like You

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 4, 2009.

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• Sometimes you'll have great actors who aren't comfortable with improvising. Which can get pretty frustrating. But every actor's coming from a different place and they have their own strengths and weaknesses and your job is to sell them as two people in the same world. Some of them have to have their hands held and some I just let loose entirely.

  David Gordon Green

  Jobs, Hands, Two

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It's very frustrating [ to work under director's control], not just because you're getting rejected constantly, but also because you're at a time in your life where you have an enormous amount of creative energy, and there's no way to express it. That's why a lot of people get into drinking or drugs or whatever.

  Matt Damon

  Drinking, People, Creative

  Source: www.pbs.org

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