Frustration Quotes - Page 11

• The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Optimistic, People, Feelings

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• Going up to Canada is great because I'm not dealing with people carrying their agendas into the room. I'm lucky because 97% of the people who come to the show know who they are dealing with, whether they are on the left or the right, we're sharing the same frustration.

  Lewis Black

  People, Agendas, Canada

  "Interview: Lewis Black, new special, "In God We Rust," premieres midnight tonight on Comedy Central". Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

  Byron Katie

  Loneliness, Believe, Sadness

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on who's in charge. If the young man's in charge or won't let the old man take over, the young man's brute strength becomes destructive and inefficient, and the old man's intelligence, out of frustration, grows cruel and inefficient. Sometimes the old man forgets that he is old and tries to compete with the young man's strength, and then it's a sad sight. Or the young man forgets that he is young and argues with the old man about how to do the work, and that's a sad sight, too.

  Russell Banks

  Men, Sight, Working Together

  Russell Banks (1986). “Trailerpark”

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• I would never wear anything with a logo. That I really find difficult. It's a frustration that I'll find a nice shirt or something and it's got 50 prints of the logo on it - why do they do this?

  Norman Foster

  Nice, Logos, Shirts

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• For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country ... not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change,” she said. “I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.

  Michel'le

  Country, Disappointment, Moving

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• I love my wife but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move past differences and into the realm of peace and prosperity, another thing - an old idea or new interpretation or any spark that relights the paradigms that comfort us - will keep us where we are, where it is safe.

  Richard Schiff

  Moving, Fighting, Past

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget thats actually not the point at the end of the day.

  Ewan McGregor

  The End Of The Day, Stuff, Tough

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• I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and then here comes another one. When does that end? What I'm trying to do is get it to end right now, by recognizing that that cycle is writing. That is: trying to understand the frustrations and setbacks (and agony) as part of a bigger chess game you are playing with art itself.

  George Saunders

  Art, Writing, Games

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

  Edna Ferber

  Clouds, Irritation, Tragedy

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• I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

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• The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men necessitated that a distance be kept, and so what vindicated them also poured fuel on the furnace of their rage. One delight presumed another dissatisfaction, but their hatefulness confessed to their own lack of power to please. They hated men because they needed husbands, and they loathed the men they chased away for going.

  Alexander Theroux

  Husband, Distance, Men

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• Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your frustration. No one said motherhood was going to be easy.

  Heather King

  Mother, Guilt, Add

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• When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.

  Mark Hanna

  Girl, Mother, Women

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• Raw emotions - anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment - are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  People, Feelings, Want

  Lysa TerKeurst (2013). “Unglued Participant's Guide: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions”, p.8, Zondervan

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• It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

  George Steiner

  Ties, One Day, Ease

  "George and his dragons". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.

  Ruth Wilson

  Beautiful, Character, Burning

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

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• The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.

  Henry Williamson

  Mind, Becoming, Body

  Henry Williamson (1963). “The Power of the Dead”

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• We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.

  Mother Angelica

  Jesus, Regret, Heart

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• For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Thinking, Levels, Bass

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• The frustration of being marginalized often gets misdirected at the most visible members of one's own community, because they are more accessible than the real agents of marginalization.

  Melissa Febos

  Real, Community, Agents

  "Carnal Knowledge". Interview with Marie-Helene Westgate, www.guernicamag.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

  Alan Watts

  Self, Perfect, Approach

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• Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero.

  Mike Mentzer

  Hero, Men, Mediocrity

  Mike Mentzer, John Little (2002). “High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way”, Mcgraw-hill

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• There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Moving, Heart, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1990). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952”, 1990.

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• Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.

  Bill Bright

  Inspiration, Stagnation, Perspiration

  Bill Bright (1970). “Come Help Change the World”

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