Frustrating Quotes - Page 5

• It's frustrating sometimes to see the mismatch in resources between the pointless and the urgent, isn't it. Like the gap between the vast resources poured into military technological research to make war more sophisticated, and the trickle that goes into developing techniques that might prevent war instead.

  Anita Roddick

  War, Military, Research

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world. Y'know, I'm a very strong person and I think that's why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature'.

  Kate Bush

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "'I'm Not Some Weirdo Recluse'". Interview with Tom Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2005.

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• The separation of church and state can sometimes be frustrating for women and men of deep religious faith. They may be tempted to misuse government in order to impose a value which they cannot persuade others to accept. But once we succumb to that temptation, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom is at risk.

  Edward Kennedy

  Religious, Men, Order

  "Kennedy Tells Falwell Group Of Tolerance" by Phil Gailey, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 1983.

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• This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Night, Light

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• We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

  Gail Collins

  People, Needs, Heroic

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• I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating, but at the same time, I'm never quite satisfied with what I'm doing, so I'm always looking for the next thing.

  Robert Longo

  Trying, Next, Answers

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• Seth can get irritated/frustrated with Jane and me. This exerpt is from the private session of November 11, 1979: "... the same kind of reaction, however, are involved in all activities, and it is sometimes frustrating for me that you cannot perceive the fascinating facets of any event. You still - and I do not simply mean you two alone - do not feel the unsurpassable force that thoughts have. You do not understand that they do form events, that to change events you must first change thoughts. You get what you concentrate on."

  Jane Roberts

  Change, Mean, Two

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• I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say buy not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Thinking, Feelings, World

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• The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Journey, Long

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day - sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

  Bruce Lee

  Light, Darkness, Matter

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.233, Tuttle Publishing

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• A lot of the time when you're doing your own work, it's all in your own head, which can be frustrating if you're prepping for something, especially an audition where it's all in your brain and you go in and no one else has seen it and you don't really know how it fits.

  Ed Speleers

  Brain, Auditions, Fit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think one of the aspects of photography that remains for me is I find the process still frustrating. The counter to that is that it's still very exciting. If you didn't have the frustration, you wouldn't have the excitement. If you didn't have the disappointment, you wouldn't have the magical intoxication of this process working.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Disappointment, Frustration

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• Live what you love, and love what you live.
  Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.

  Ralph Marston

  Waste, And Love, Painful

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• Love is unpredictable and it’s frustrating and it’s tragic and it’s beautiful.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Love Is, Tragic

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• Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

  Garrison Wynn

  Stupid, Average, Rest Of Your Life

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• I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Exit, Internet, Needed

  "Rushes Sequences - Tim Berners-Lee interview - Ghana (Video)". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.bbc.co.uk. October 26, 2009.

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• I just go out there and try to help my teammates any way I can. They are on me a lot to be in the lineup and do stuff for the team, but sometimes it's just...frustrating.

  Andruw Jones

  Team, Trying, Stuff

  Source: www.talkingchop.com

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• I've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful.

  Henry Rollins

  Beautiful, Country, Croatia

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• We should treat each other better. Why in the hell would you still have racism? This ancient, moronic hatred? Why does our foreign policy have to always involve so much death and so much death of innocent people as a matter of course, to the point to where no one bothers to say anything. I guess a lot of people don't want to move forward. It's frustrating at times.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Racism, People

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

  Bruce Schneier

  Terrorism, Success And Failure, Effects

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• Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Surprising

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.176, New Directions Publishing

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• Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.

  George Stroumboulopoulos

  Sports, Done

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• I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies.

  Rob Zombie

  Sometimes, Worst, Trailers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am frustrated by celebrities who decide to write children's books because they think it's easy. That drives me crazy. It's frustrating because it's unfair to children. Because they'll get a lot of attention, they'll get a lot of marketing budget and so on just because they're a celebrity - the Madonnas, the Ricky Gervaises, the Russell Brands.

  John Boyne

  Children, Crazy, Book

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• I am a frustrating interviewee. I'm like Ronald Reagan. I don't remember and I don't recall.

  Misha Collins

  Remember, Recalls

  Source: movieweb.com

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