Frustrated Quotes - Page 9

• Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

  David Riesman

  Men, Jam, Traffic

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.255, Transaction Publishers

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• We all get frustrated and we all get angry, especially being young. We're happy so quickly, we're mad so quickly, and everything is just flowing so fast.

  Taissa Farmiga

  Mad, Young, Angry

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.

  Larry McMurtry

  Example, Routine, Three

  "Novelist Larry McMurtry’s Last Kind Words". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2014.

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• The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.

  Ai Weiwei

  Technology, People, Effort

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The tories major announcement was to scrap the human rights act, because and I quote 'people get very frustrated with human rights'.

  Tim Farron

  Rights, People, Announcements

  Tim Farron's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.newstatesman.com. October 7, 2014.

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• My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

  Anne Waldman

  Father, Writing, Thinking

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Creating, People

  "The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia". Interview with Jacob Gordon, www.treehugger.com. February 7, 2008.

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• There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

  Charles Durning

  War, Tears, Ems

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• To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Attractive, Restraint

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Do not allow yourselves to be made to feel inadequate or frustrated because you cannot do everything others seem to be accomplishing. Only you and your Father in Heaven know your needs, strengths, and desires. Around this knowledge your personal course must be charted and your choices made.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Father, Choices Made, Heaven

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.

  Sergio Leone

  Cinema, Elements, Surprise

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• I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.

  Mary Fallin

  Oklahoma, Cost, States

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• A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems we can't solve are not necessarily insoluble. Second, when we need it, God offers us a sense of forgiveness, a sense of cleansing from our incompleteness. . . . Last and perhaps most important, a personal relationship with God redeems us from the fear of death. We needn't be afraid that all our good deeds will vanish when we die.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Important, Deeds

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• The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling, murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release.

  Susan McClary

  Symphony, Movement, Cadence

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• It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round.

  Julian Sanchez

  Scary Stories, Liberty, Needs

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• If you’re frustrated because you’re not getting what you want, stop for a second: Have you actually flat-out asked for it? If you haven’t, stop complaining. You can’t expect the world to read your mind. You have to put it out there, and sometimes putting it out there is as simple as just saying, “Hey, can I have that?

  Sophia Amoruso

  Simple, Mind, Want

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#Girlboss”, p.110, Penguin UK

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• Entertainers have no brain...I get frustrated when I hear things like that from people. We have different goals. We have our own ways. I try to do the best I can, but still.

  Seohyun

  People, Goal, Brain

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• Your guardian angel never, ever stops communicating with you.
  I feel that at times they should be frustrated with us but they seem to have endless patience and they never ever give up on us.

  Lorna Byrne

  Giving Up, Angel, Guardian

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• And lastly, when other things in life get tough, when you're going through family troubles, when you're heartbroken, when you're frustrated with money problems, focus on your work. It has saved me through every single difficult thing I have ever had to do, like a scaffolding that goes far beyond any traditional notions of a career.

  Teresita Fernandez

  Heartbroken, Things In Life, Careers

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• I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that all experience is a drug experience. We're all on drugs all the time, largely because we are MADE of drugs

  Dennis McKenna

  Spiritual, People, Drug

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• My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about the reason for the rejection. I also found that people assume that others are like them, operating under the same knowledge, beliefs, constraints and priorities. This mirror assumption makes it easier to speculate about why others act in the way they do, but sometimes the mirror assumption is wrong.

  Gary A. Klein

  Mirrors, People, Rejection

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• A lot of people are very frustrated. On the outside I am a woman, but how much am I also a man inside? And how much is the man that I meet actually a woman inside? The transsexual is a symbol for the confusion all of us in the Western world feel about this right now.

  Pernille Fischer Christensen

  Men, Confusion, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Artist, Thinking

  "Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

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• People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Insecure, Self

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• Sometimes I get frustrated in traffic. I typically start going deep with my cab driver and Twitter feed - simultaneously - to take my mind off the gridlock. I enjoy live-tweeting my cab rides.

  Andy Cohen

  Mind, Cab Drivers, Sometimes

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