Frustration Quotes - Page 13

• But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

  Wayne White

  Art, Thinking, Sacred

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• The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Causes, Defeat

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• To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.

  Susan Sontag

  Reading, World, Amusement

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego
  because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself
  It is like a wave
  it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really
  it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again
  pulls itself together with pride
  towers with pride
  rushes forward into imaginary conquest
  crashes in frustration
  withdraws with remorse and repentance
  pulls itself together with new resolution

  Agnes Martin

  Pride, Ego, Battle

  Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway (1973). “Agnes Martin: Exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”

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• I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.

  Susan Bysiewicz

  Wall, Class, Ideas

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• Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude.

  Dalai Lama

  Lonely, Attitude, Feelings

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• The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your event, and running up against the 'shoulds' and 'oughts' of that world, and the inevitable frustration and depression and feelings of failure. A person can be complete or incomplete, but one thing is sure, he cannot be someone else.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Keys, People

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• I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.

  Sarah Lacy

  Art, Passion, Hobbies

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• Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.

  Mike Greenberg

  Golf, Games, Endless

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• You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics will bring it out of you. You're always stripping yourself down to the bones of your personality. And sometimes you just get a glimpse of the kind of talent you've been given. Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that.

  Steve Ovett

  Running, Cutting, Agony

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• Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.

  Stephen Covey

  Reflection, Mirrors, Expectations

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.206, Mango Media Inc.

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• I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Men, Sight

  'The Statue and the Bust' (1863 revision) l. 246

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• I was asked this morning if it was frustrating to be 13-1 last year and not have more recognition and I said, "Hey man, I'd take that every year. I'd take that kind of frustration and not worry about it one bit. It wasn't frustration, it was one of those great runs and I enjoyed it."

  LaVell Edwards

  Running, Morning, Men

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• Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Important, Purpose

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

  Eve Arnold

  Thinking, Satisfied, Ifs

  "Eve Arnold obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to play what I hear in my head - that is the ultimate source of frustration.

  Joe Satriani

  Play, Ongoing, Want

  "Joe Satriani : Riff By Riff". Book by Rich Maloof, 1994.

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• There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

  Julia Cameron

  Artistic Life, Done, Levels

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.21, Souvenir Press

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• Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence that reduce stress and anxiety, whereas anger and hatred come from frustration and undermine our sense of trust. Because of ignorance, many of our problems are our own creation. Education, however, is the instrument that increases our ability to employ our own intelligence.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Education, Confidence

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• Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Organization, Poverty, Vulnerable

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• All those emotions spanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealously, all those feelings are red.

  Taylor Swift

  Feelings, Red, Emotion

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• Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Beach, Sadness, Darkness

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2014

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• You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.

  Vernon Howard

  Battle, Causes, Compromise

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• I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects I hope that every professional gay will say 'enough', come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Doctors, Two

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• Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Depression

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• When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

  Jack Kornfield

  Regret, Loneliness, Space

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