Disappointing Quotes - Page 10

• All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.

  Candace Bushnell

  Men, Feelings, Want

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• If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

  Larry Crabb

  Pain, Real, Struggle

  Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

  John Ortberg

  Art, People, Rate

  John Ortberg (2012). “Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus”, p.101, Zondervan

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• What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

  Alain de Botton

  Tiny, Bigs, Obligation

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• I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.

  Sara Shepard

  People, Just Saying, Deals

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• Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons.

  Barbara Holland

  Spring, Real, Winter

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• We [need to] stop treating each other like that, stop calling each other fat and stop with these unrealistic expectations for women. It’s disappointing that the media keeps it alive and fuels that fire.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Fire, Media, Expectations

  "7 Feminist Jennifer Lawrence Quotes, Because J. Law's All About Female Empowerment" by Kenya Foy, www.bustle.com. June 3, 2015.

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• A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Happiness, Happy, Disappointment

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• I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it...Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  Van Morrison

  Spiritual, Song, Jobs

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• I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Home, Ideas, Different

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• I have nice ears. I have no lobes, which was disappointing for a while, but I've gotten over it and learned to love them. Being lobeless isn't the end of the world

  Natalie Portman

  Nice, Ears, World

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• Its just as disappointing as it was thrilling to win the Masters. To come very close, to play so hard for 72 holes and play better than everybody but one guy is disappointing.

  Phil Mickelson

  Winning, Play, Guy

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• Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song has been a burden and even that I didn’t sing it for a while. That’s completely false. I am very proud of ‘American Pie’ and the many satellites that grow from it and revolve around it. For many years I carried my songs around and now they carry me around. I have always sung ‘American Pie’ for my audience and would never think of disappointing them since it is they who have given me a wonderful life and untold affection for almost 30 years.

  Don McLean

  Song, Thinking, Hands

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• As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful in those schools in which the resources available to help the children learn the skills that will be measured by these tests are fewest, the scores they get are predictably the lowest, and the strategies resorted to by principals in order to escape the odium attaching to a disappointing set of numbers tend to be the most severe.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Believe, Kids

  Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.110, Broadway Books

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• One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.

  Shawn Ryan

  Running, Stars, Tv Shows

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• I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

  Justin Timberlake

  Creating, Expectations, Worry

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• Viewed as a drama, the war is somewhat disappointing.

  D. W. Griffith

  War, Drama, World

  c.1915 Comment on World War I. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984).

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• Living your problems and loving them like locked rooms is much different from denying them or capitulating to them. It is believing that God is with you in the imperfect, even disappointing circumstances of your life. It is saying to Him with faith in your heart.

  Steven Furtick

  Believe, Heart, Different

  Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.198, Multnomah

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• As a consumer, if I heard someone who said, "I've written this song," and then I found out it wasn't by them, it's a bit disappointing. A lot of the guys that do that are really talented and they've made some incredible music, but they get addicted to having success and feel too much pressure, so they get other people to make sure that their next song makes money.

  Howard Lawrence

  Song, People, Guy

  "Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Disclosure Break Down Every Song on Their New LP". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. September 1, 2015.

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• That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.

  Emmett Shear

  Thinking, People, Pet

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• By the end of your incredibly arduous, disappointing, stressful journey, you will be your true self, in a place where you belong, with friends who truly understand you and bring all sorts of opportunities your way.

  Martha Beck

  Friends, Opportunity, Journey

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.338, Harmony

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• Google 'broccoli casserole' and make the first recipe you find. I guarantee it will be disappointing.

  Christopher Kimball

  Google, Guarantees, Recipes

  "Who Killed Gourmet Magazine?" by Craig "Meathead” Goldwyn, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2009.

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• I think we all understand disappointing yourself. Especially in the acting profession, which is probably similar to a political career, even the most stable, head-on-straight person is still going to be confronted with doing something that they shouldn't, that could affect their job or cause them not to be at their best - even if it's something as simple as taking a red eye for an audition at 6 a.m. the next morning and you know you'll be dragging.

  Corey Stoll

  Morning, Jobs, Eye

  Source: deadline.com

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• To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

  Epictetus

  Desire

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• It was crushingly disappointing as a fan of The Simpsons to discover that it's just you in a room speaking into a microphone. I thought I was going to become friends with Homer Simpson, but unfortunately none of them are real.

  Russell Brand

  Real, Fans, Rooms

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