Frustrating Quotes - Page 3

• I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

  Sydney Pollack

  Mean, People, Mind

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• Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

  Roger Federer

  Inspirational, Sports, Work

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• And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

  George Pataki

  Democracy, Separation, Inherent

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• I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

  Jay Mohr

  Divorce, Golf, Thinking

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• It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released

  Mick Taylor

  Years, Cds, These Days

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• The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

  Mira Sorvino

  Love You, Games, Names

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• That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

  Thomas Lennon

  Commitment, Years, Goes On

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• I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

  James Baker

  Presidential, Election, Margins

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• For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Magic, Photographer

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• You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.

  Beth Gibbons

  Trying, Three, Needs

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• The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.

  Andrew Goodman

  Ifs

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• Making art can be maddening at times and frustrating and not always rewarding, frequently not rewarding. But you do it because you believe in it and you do it as a passion that drives you, and it sustains you during those lean times.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Art, Believe, Passion

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I'm at a very frustrating point in my career because I'm not a millionaire. Like, people assume because you're in movies or TV, you're rich. I'm not rich, but I'm far from broke. I'm what you call a 'thousandaire.'

  Aries Spears

  Funny, Careers, People

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• I think it would be frustrating to be a match maker. "What do you do?" "I'm a match maker" "Aw, that's really romantic" "No, umm... I actually... never mind"

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

  Lee Bolman

  Confusing, Excellence, Nails

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• Photographs are diary entries That's all they can be. Photographs are just documentations of a day's event. At the same time, they drag the past into the present and also continue into the future. A day's occurrence evokes both the past and the future. That's why I want to clearly date my pictures. It's actually frustrating, that's why I now photograph the future

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Past, Events, Diaries

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• It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

  Ben Bernanke

  Cost, Raises, Higher

  "Diane Sawyer Says 'That Republicans See Ben Bernanke As A Villain'". "ABC World News" with Diane Sawyer, www.newsbusters.org. March 28, 2012.

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• Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Communication, Journey, Confusion

  Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Love Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.96, Random House

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• Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude

  Mike Yaconelli

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Reality

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• It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Thinking, Care

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• One of the suckiest and most frustrating facts of life is that sometimes relationship just end, often without reason. I truly believe that sometimes both men and women simply run out of love, even when there was a lot of it in the beginning

  Greg Behrendt

  Running, Believe, Men

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.28, Harmony

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• What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you can only work until the production wraps. Then you have to find another job.

  Jason Bateman

  Jobs, Hard Work, Phones

  "Emmys Q&A: Jason Bateman". "AwardsLine" with Anthony D'Alessandro, deadline.com. August 27, 2013.

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• It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't connect to in any way. It's hard for Americans to connect to Arabic-speaking Iraqis in refugee camps or Pashto-speaking Afghans in the countryside, and having a character who is a vehicle through which you're allowed to make these relationships really allowed us to gain in an emotional weight that was difficult for us to do any other way to make it all human.

  Rick Rowley

  War, Character, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't understand what apps are on my phone. Why do they ask for passwords? Why do they all ask for different passwords? It's so frustrating that I end up just reading a book every time I try to go online.

  Chelsea Handler

  Book, Reading, Phones

  "Chelsea Handler on Her Super Bowl Ad and Pro-Nudity Campaign". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. February 2, 2015.

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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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