Frustrated Quotes - Page 23

• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  Nate Berkus

  Baseball, Mother, Years

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• The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.

  Demetri Martin

  Knives, Perfect, Want

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• There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Focus, Storm

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife - but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren't just housewives, they were community leaders.

  Betty Friedan

  Community, Leader, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Art, Ideas, Slick

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Take A Deep Breath, Situation, Walks

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music.

  Sun Ra

  Play, Unhappy, Musician

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• I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Girlfriend, Artist, Play

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• I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no - it's just very airy. And my classical teachers were just so frustrated with me because I would have these deep, low notes that were really strong, and the higher register was strong, but right in that middle area, it was really hard. It was like a passage. And many singers go through this and work it out. But I realized in jazz, I could just take advantage of that and take advantage of having a voice that was very different in different areas.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Teacher, Strong, Voice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

  Rachel Zucker

  Narrative, Sometimes, Feels

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into a disaster, like a pandemic or famine. Sometimes we get so frustrated with the slowness of human political processes that we wish a giant flaming rock would solve the problem for us.

  Annalee Newitz

  Running, Believe, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I see vegan food sold in single-use plastic containers, I get frustrated knowing that plastic is not really recycled; it is down-cycled to less and less reusable grades, and too much of it eventually ends up in the ocean - where it kills animals. Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa.

  Karen Dawn

  Ocean, Mean, Caring

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• When you teach, it's sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two - and then pick a time in the future to sink back in. It makes you less frustrated and more in control. I do best when I give myself breaks and come back hungry.

  Tom Barbash

  Writing, Two, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat.

  Sara Bareilles

  Piano, Firsts, Get Up

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Republican, Democrat

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I have great respect for Bernie Sanders, there was a moment where he opposed the Paris Deal... I was frustrated with him, but he and I have a very good relationship... and I have great affection for him, but I do think when he criticized the Paris agreement, I didn't think it was the right position.

  John Podesta

  Thinking, Paris, Agreement

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• What has changed about an entire generation of young people includes not only neoliberal society's disinvestment in youth and the lasting fate of downward mobility, but also the fact that youth live in a commercially carpet-bombed and commodified environment that is unlike anything experienced by those of previous generations. Nothing has prepared this generation for the inhospitable and savage new world of commodification, privatization, joblessness, frustrated hopes and stillborn projects.

  Henry Giroux

  Fate, People, This Generation

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Trying, Energy

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 20, 2011

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• Understand that all emotions serve you. Those you once thought of as negative emotions are merely calls to action. For example, if you feel frustrated it means that you believe things could be better, and they're not. This is a call to action telling you there's something you must do to make this better now. This "negative" emotion is actually a gift if you use it effectively.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Believe, Mean

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• When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

  Suzanne Massie

  Best Effort, People, Problem

  Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

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• I was proud, excited and a little frightened. It was all taking off so quickly…the more successful the boys were, the further away from me John felt. I was getting used to being a mum, but most of the time I felt like a single parent…it was hard not to feel frustrated with being stuck at home. I loved Julian, but I knew that if I hadn’t had him I could have seen much more of John and that was hard…I felt shut off from the life he was living. After years at his side, I was excluded, just as it was all happening.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Home, Successful, Boys

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• If you're not frustrated that you're not playing football then you shouldn't be playing football

  Theo Walcott

  Football, Playing Football, Ifs

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• We may have much that worries us, and we may find many reasons to be concerned. Yet, as President Spencer W. Kimball observed, peace and the Savior's doctrine of forgiveness are inseparably connected: The essence of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Essence, Worry, Soul

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• As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?

  Leroy Cronin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Matter

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• It's possible at any time during a player's career to get into top physical shape or to try to win every game! But you can't teach skills to an old player. Youth coaches should keep in mind that individual skills need to be nurtured at an early age. Players who haven't mastered the fundamental skills become frustrated because the game gets too difficult for them as they move into higher levels.

  Claudio Reyna

  Moving, Winning, Player

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