Frustrating Quotes - Page 17

• Life is currently quite frustrating. However, it feels good to be alive.

  Eric Halvorsen

  Feel Good, Alive, Life Is

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• Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Real, Self

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• The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Names, Tolerance

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• I do my job but seldom feel content after matches. If the team wins I am happy, but it remains frustrating.

  Thomas Vermaelen

  Jobs, Team, Winning

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• What people refer to as nerds or geeks, all they really are is people who are passionate about what they like, and aren't afraid of it. To me, it's very frustrating when people are discourage from being enthusiastic about things. This idea of the geek, or the nerd; all that person really is - and I would consider myself one - is someone who is not ashamed of liking what they enjoy.

  Andrew W.K.

  Ideas, People, Nerd

  Source: collider.com

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• 3D movie is tedious, its tedious for everybody, it's hard for the crew, it's hard for the actors. It adds more time. It's more technically complicated, so that just adds more time and takes a little more time away from he acting and that's kind of frustrating but to say "I'll never do 3D again" that doesn't make any sense.

  Stanley Tucci

  Acting, Add, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign citizens, who have finally broken free of worshipping a ruling class and begun thinking for themselves. Democracy can seem frustrating and messy at times, but it delivers.

  David Brin

  Thinking, Self, Civilization

  David Brin, Matthew Woodring Stover (2013). “Star Wars on Trial: Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time”, p.48, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• ... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our parties exist from a fear of theory. The voter fears that one idea can always be contradicted by another. Therefore the parties reciprocally defend themselves against the few old ideas they have inherited. They don't live from what they promise, but from frustrating the promises of others. This is their silent community of interests.

  Robert Musil

  Party, Ideas, Community

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• I think that gulf is what makes the work interesting, but as a creator it's endlessly frustrating because I'm starting out with this goal, this thing I'm trying to create, and then the thing I actually do create is very, very different. It's always painful, in some ways, especially when it's just finished.

  Daniel Clowes

  Thinking, Goal, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• During my career as a standup and actor, I realized it was very frustrating for me to get hired because Hollywood was hiring a different kind of brother, you know, and I was doing political humor... In order for me to really have a long career, I'm going to have to learn how to write and produce for myself... I had no idea I was really going to like it and I'm very fortunate to be successful. But the idea was to always eventually create something for myself. That was the idea from the beginning when I went into writing and producing.

  Larry Wilmore

  Brother, Writing, Successful

  "‘The Nightly Show’ host Larry Wilmore: ‘Has race been in the news lately?’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2015.

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• It's been by turns frustrating and fascinating and wonderful beyond imagination. If what I suspect is true, it's one of the most important milestones in human history to acknowledge that we are not alone in the universe.

  Steven M. Greer

  Imagination, Important, Wonderful

  "Is The Proof Out There, Too?". Rocky Mountain News, June 06, 1999.

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• A marriage bound together by commitments to exploit the other for filling one's own needs (and I fear that most marriages are built on such a basis) can legitimately be described as a "tic on a dog" relationship. Just as a hungry tic clamps on to a nourishing host in anticipation of a meal, so each partner unites with the other in the expectation of finding what his or her personal nature demands. The rather frustrating dilemma, of course, is that in such a marriage there are two tics and no dog!

  Larry Crabb

  Dog, Commitment, Two

  Larry Crabb (2009). “The Marriage Builder: A Blueprint for Couples and Counselors”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

  Criss Jami

  Funny, Jealousy, Hater

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.

  Daryl Hannah

  Party, Gender, Inequality

  "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

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• Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience.

  Tom Ellis

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• The business can be frustrating. For me, Omaha is a rounding foundation. I was raised in a very faith-filled household, very hardworking. It made me aware of what privilege is. And it's a place I can go back to, spend time with nieces and nephews, celebrate the things that have nothing to do with the hubbub of Hollywood.

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Niece, Nephew, Foundation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Art, Risk, Genius

  "Are We Alone in the Universe?". jewishworldreview.com. December 30, 2011.

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• It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Hands, People, Giving

  Jonathan Rosen (2001). “The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds”, p.85, A&C Black

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• I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Eye

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• Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.

  Robert Bateman

  Art, Frustration, Challenges

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• Finally I'm really happy with the way I'm playing again after a couple of frustrating years.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Couple, Years, Way

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• Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.

  Frank Smith

  Boring, Nonsensical, Activity

  Frank Smith (1986). “Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of Our Classrooms”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• I was feeling guilty in the beginning; it was frustrating to be successful when a lot of my friends weren't. Also, I was constantly being reminded of that by people in my family making jokes.

  Cindy Sherman

  Successful, People, Feelings

  "Studio: Cindy Sherman". Interview with Betsy Berne, www.tate.org.uk. June 1, 2003.

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• That's when I use the word frustrating, when your body breaks down or your body doesn't do the things I'm asking it to do at my age, because I'm trying to keep up with the Joneses.

  Roger Clemens

  Age, Trying, Asking

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• We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.

  Ami Ayalon

  War, Winning, Battle

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