Disappointing Quotes - Page 4

• From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

  Epictetus

  Needs, Vow, Instant

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• Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Data, People, Leader

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• This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

  Anne Lamott

  Confusing, Body, Messy

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• I guess I didn't even know the word 'genre' until I did 'True Blood.' That's how naive I was, and I didn't realize that there was a point of view about certain types of TV. And so I guess I found it disappointing that there is a segment of the critical community that looks at genre as something that is separate, less than.

  Denis O'Hare

  Views, Blood, Community

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• People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.

  Charlotte Mew

  People, Expectations, Diagnosis

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• Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which each individual person thinks... too statistical. I find this disappointing because, in my view of the history of psychology, far more was learned, for example, when Jean Piaget spent several years observing the ways that three children developed, or when Sigmund Freud took several years to examine the thinking of a rather small number of patients.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Thinking, Small Numbers

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• A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was and always will be athletic, depending on inner if not on visible energy. Members of other professions that depend on the expenditure of physical energy must, I believe, find similar difficulties when attempting to double up on their energies. One has often heard that the most magnificent specimens of boxers, wrestlers and champions in almost every branch of athletic sport prove to be disappointing upon the removal of that revered jockstrap.

  Laurence Olivier

  Sports, Sex, Believe

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• In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

  Biz Stone

  Position

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• The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.

  Hugh S. Johnson

  Amazon, Microsoft, Earning

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• Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk about anything except the injustice of the United States income tax structure toward people with fluctuating income, or how to breed Black Angus cows, or something.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• When I dropped out [from a law school], everybody was disappointed... But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom. Before that, I never realized how much I sought other people's approval. Once I figured that out, I was free to move on and seek the approval of other people, in comedy clubs and showbiz meetings.

  Demetri Martin

  Moving, School, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Nature, Maturity

  Washington Irving (1835). “The Beauties”, p.202

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• Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Struggle, Adversity

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• A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

  Stephen Young

  Business, Successful, Winning

  Stephen Young (2003). “Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good”, p.2, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.

  D. M. Turner

  Taken, Enough, Wells

  Interview with Elizabeth Gips, www.tripzine.com. May 1, 2001.

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• It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?

  Eva Longoria

  Taken, Divorce, Thinking

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• At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Nhl, The End Of The Day, Lost

  "Game on -- NHL, players make a deal / Parties expected to ratify next week" by Ross McKeon, www.sfgate.com. July 14, 2005.

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• Milestones you'd like to reach before retiring? Not really. Because when I began it was never to reach 100 games or reach 200 or to get high on the all-time list or whatever else. Those things are by-products. I want to win another championship, beginning with the conference championship. The thing that was disappointing to me last year was the fact that we did not win the conference championship. I felt like we just let that game (against Air Force in Las Vegas) get away from us.

  LaVell Edwards

  Time, Disappointment, Winning

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• Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.

  Garrison Keillor

  Easter, Suffering, Ham

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• On girls night in we talk about dating; the ups and downs of the previous week. Our collective laughter is uncontrollable and tearful, even the most disappointing dates become meritorious on girls night in.

  Cilla Black

  Girl, Laughter, Night

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• Being a working mother means that you are always disappointing somebody.

  Meg Ryan

  Mother, Mean

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• Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots as a race have proved disappointing. Instead of getting to boss around underlings made of steel and plastic with circuitry and blinking lights and tank treads, like Rosie the maid on The Jetsons, we humans have outfitted ourselves with robotic external organs. Our iPods dictate what we listen to next, gadgets in our cars tell us which way to go, and smartphones finish our sentences for us. We have become our own robots.

  Mary Norris

  Taken, Light, Race

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• It's a bit disappointing when board members who don't know a thing about football are making decisions on your career. When you look at it you've got coaches, senior players and CEO's who wanted me but then it gets to a board meeting and you've got fat businessmen who are making the decision on your career. It was frustrating and it made me a bit angry.

  Willie Mason

  Senior, Football, Player

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• I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.

  Joseph Kanon

  Thinking, Interesting, House

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• I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Editing, Self, Kind

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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