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  In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life. We are having fun, we don't get bored, we don't have frustrations.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Fun, Bored, Enjoy Life

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• Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.

  Jason Mraz

  Block, Anger, Healing

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• Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

  Sam Ewing

  Funny, Talking, Confusion

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• Consult not your fears but your hopes
  and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.

  Pope John XXII

  Motivational, Success, Dream

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• I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state

  Tom Berenger

  Remember, Incredibles, States

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• All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.

  Dorothea Brande

  Inspirational, Writing, Acting

  Donald G. Carty, Dorothea Brande (2013). “How to Wake Up and Live: A Formula for Success That Works”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc

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• People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

  William Faulkner

  Strength, Mean, Artist

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• I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Anger, Confusion, Frustrated

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• Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

  Sumner Redstone

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

  Judd Nelson

  Relax, Outlets, Difficult

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• I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

  Temple Grandin

  Able, Remember, Scream

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Aggravation, Degradation

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• I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Home, Guy, Goes On

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• On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Hope, Country

  "Obama: 'Fear' drives voters" by Carol E.Lee, www.politico.com. October 16, 2010.

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• In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

  Alan Perlis

  Frustrated, Definitions, Computer

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• Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.

  David Abrahamsen

  Nurse, Violence, Wet

  David Abrahamsen (1973). “The murdering mind”, Harpercollins

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• Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sensations

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Games, Chess Game, Chess Pieces

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration

  Phil McGraw

  Hurt, Fear, Expression

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• As long as I leave my frustration behind, I know I am moving toward my goal again.

  Tara Lipinski

  Moving, Goal, Long

  "Tara Lipinski​: On Dealing with Stress, Using Failure to Fuel Success​​, and How she Keeps her Head Clear". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Doors, Trying

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• Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Perfection, Causes, Worst

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.135, Knopf

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• Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

  Ayn Rand

  Lonely, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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• My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.

  Harlan Ellison

  Philosophy, Life Is, Personal Strength

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook”, p.208, Open Road Media

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