Dissatisfaction Quotes - Page 8

• We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

  Frank Gehry

  Wonder, Deny, Alienation

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• We aren't born with the innate knowledge of how to "do" relationship. Even worse, we've been brainwashed by modern day society to look for and seek perfection, which leads to an ongoing state of frustration and dissatisfaction.

  Arielle Ford

  Frustration, Perfection, Looks

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• You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.

  W. Clement Stone

  Disappointment, Attitude, Profit

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• don't think I should be in the business of making big pronouncements about where we are now, but I would say that dissatisfaction is as acute now as it was then. What's different, and what I think we can learn from these people, despite their abundant folly, is that we're not using the future as the organizing principle for our critique.

  Christine Jennings

  Thinking, People, Principles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.

  Leni Zumas

  Thinking, Knowing, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

  W. Clement Stone

  Attitude, One Day

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

  Don DeLillo

  Past, Nostalgia, Rage

  Don DeLillo (1999). “White Noise”, p.210, Penguin

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• There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.

  Noam Chomsky

  Acceptance, Government, Rejection

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• The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Simple, Two, Self

  Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

  Ken Wilber

  Growing, Mental Illness, Unhappiness

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• ... dissatisfaction with one's self and dissatisfaction with the world - is necessary - it is one of the prime things that keeps the artist going on - that drives him - happiness, as such, must come in between times, as best it can.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Artist, Self, World

  Keith F. Davis, Nancy Barrett, John H. Lawrence, Clarence John Laughlin (1990). “Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer”, Hallmark Card Inc

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• The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Men, Would Be

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

  Carre Otis

  People, Eating Disorder, Body

  "Ending the Myth" by Carré Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

  Shinjo Ito

  Moving On, Letting Go, Ignorance

  Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.94

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• I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Abuse, Fans

  "Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2010.

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• But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go unconscious again, to fall back into an automatic-pilot mode of unawareness. These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Spring, Fall, Focus

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged.

  Ivan Krastev

  Art, Democracies Have, People

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• The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them - and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. That's the source of my indignations, my dissatisfactions, however it comes out on the stage. I feel betrayed by the people I'm part of, these creatures, these magnificent creatures.

  George Carlin

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

  Las Vegas CityLife, August 09, 2007.

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• Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

  Jim Carrey

  Acting, World, Divine

  "Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who - Jim Carrey interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Innovation, Reason, Danger

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.86, Stanford University Press

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• Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Self, Effort, Together

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Sight, People, Wanting More

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• Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

  Paul Tournier

  Expression, Ordinary, Serious

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• Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wish, Prejudice, Want

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• The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Want, Lasts, Suitable

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