Frustration Quotes - Page 19

• At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

  Alain de Botton

  Lying, Heart, Reality

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, 2000.

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• Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with no frustrations which can be harmful to yourself and others around you. Therefore, the most simplified description of the Satanic belief is: indulgence instead of abstinence.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Indulge In, Desire, Satanic

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all human beings who because of race, creed, or color, are ‘invisible’. Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice.

  Pearl Primus

  Dance, Ignorance, Fighting

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• He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

  Robert Musil

  Running, Wall, Freedom

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• Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, People, Cracks

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or that you should spend your life looking for the perfect career that is devoid of frustration. ... You should expect to be regularly frustrated in your work even though you may be in exactly the right vocation.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Careers, Perfect

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.87, Penguin

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• No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Rejection, Too Much, Making Money

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• He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence of a lifetime. An individual's armor that had been developed to resist pain and rejection might also block a capacity for pleasure and achievement, and feelings too deeply trapped might be released only by acts of self-destruction or harm to others. Reich was convinced that sexual deprivation and frustration motivated much of the world's chaos and warfare.

  Gay Talese

  Pain, Block, Self

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• Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace.

  James A. Murphy III

  Determination, Achievement, Purpose

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• All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists.

  Fred Brooks

  Believe, Goal, Focus

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• Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

  May Sarton

  Age, Growing, Resources

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Fall, Punishment

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• We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Pain, Loss, Poetry

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• Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Air, United States, Nuclear

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• Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

  Hans Selye

  Suicide, Stress, Heart

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• The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

  Charles J. Givens

  Past, Goal, Ingredients

  Charles J. Givens (1991). “More Wealth Without Risk: How to Develop a Personal Fortune Without Going Out on a Limb”

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• Oh, my only – if I had one frustration in being on “West Wing” is I wasn’t on it enough, because I was in and out.

  Stockard Channing

  Wings, West, Enough

  "Actress Stockard Channing". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 17, 2011.

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• That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.

  Willem Dafoe

  Directors, Stories, Sometimes

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• Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

  Michel Gondry

  Wall, Revenge, Mean

  "Surreal To Reel" By Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• I feel like I'm being put inside a box, and I'm not necessarily getting a chance. Like I'm not getting the shot that I deserve. So that's what Rare is about 'cause I feel because I am the way that I am, and I don't necessarily fit the mold of a lot of different artists that's out, it's like I'm not getting the chance to show what I can do. So, that's basically all the frustration of that, and everything is pretty much Rare for me anyway.

  PJ Harvey

  Artist, Mold, Different

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

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• There's no question that a lot of Americans on both the right and the left are expressing some fears and frustrations about the dislocations brought on by globalisation. Many of those frustrations are legitimate and they need to be addressed.

  Barack Obama

  Needs, Left, Dislocation

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• I really wanted Rachel [from the Girl on The Train] to be purely fixated on fantasy and on her ex-husband.I didn't want her to be embarking on romance, touching people; I wanted her purely in the realm of fantasy and frustration and dreaming and sadness.

  Erin Cressida Wilson

  Girl, Dream, Husband

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• When the Pleiadians speak of letting go, they transmit a letting go energy through our energetic field. As a human being, we've been holding on for lifetimes, really holding on to the illusion strongly, holding on to the shame, the guilt, the sadness, all the things we've lived through, all the experiences we have allowed ourselves to create for ourselves in order to learn. We've held on to the pieces of us - the anger, the frustration and the pain.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Letting Go, Pain, Sadness

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I hope to work through disappointment and frustration with as much grace as [Georgia] O'Keeffe did, and I hope to have the same confidence in my own vision.

  Liza Campbell

  Disappointment, Grace, Vision

  Source: newwest.net

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• I think we understand people frustration. We certainly don't want to make it worse.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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