Frustration Quotes - Page 8

• Nowadays, we are confronted by a huge gap between rich and poor. This is not only morally wrong, but practically a mistake. It leads to the rich living in anxiety and the poor living in frustration, which has the potential to lead to more violence. We have to work to reduce this gap. It's truly unfair that some people should have so much while others go hungry.

  Dalai Lama

  Mistake, Should Have, People

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• The unknown is the most frightening and mysterious thing, especially in the modern world where we can practically Google anything and find out the back story. I think to have that element of mystery it almost creates a frustration that is closer to real life.

  Larry Fessenden

  Real, Thinking, Mysterious Things

  "Interview with 'Beneath' director Larry Fessenden". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 25, 2014.

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• I think people are frustrated with dysfunction, not just dysfunction in government, but a lot of dysfunction that surrounds them. I get the frustration with drugs in the neighborhood or my kids with big college loans can't find a job.

  John Kasich

  Jobs, Kids, College

  "John Kasich: Hunting down undocumented immigrants is 'not what America is'". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. August 19, 2015.

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• I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.

  William Boyd

  Real, Boredom, Dies

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols-and earth represents reality, and reality represents frustrations, chance illnesses, death, murder, and all kinds of other tragedies. Lovers are meant to look up at the sky, for up there no beautiful illusions can be trampled upon.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Reality

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.

  Mel Odom

  Thinking, Mind, Possibility

  Mel Odom (2005). “Lord of the Libraries”, p.301, Macmillan

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• I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.

  Andrew Davies

  Classic, Adaptation, Adore

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• It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Dream, Creativity, Cities

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• Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

  Alan Watts

  Acceptance, Men, Forever

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• When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking. But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak.

  John Trudell

  Wall, Block, Stress

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I want my kids to head out the door full of peace, not the echoes of my frustrations.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Kids, Echoes, Doors

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• In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Cutting, Looks

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• It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife, your husband, your whatever. Paintbrushes, pens, movie cameras, guitars, microphones, typewriters -- these are good things. Weights. These are positive ways, good ways to deal with anger, frustration, alienation, rage. 'Cause all the other ways do nothing but hurt people.

  Henry Rollins

  Hurt, Husband, Drinking

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• Racism was just a tool to deal with frustration and pain and that people are in denial about the way we feel and desperately trying to control their environment the way their lives are. And ultimately their scapegoats aren't going to make them feel better, it's just going to increase hatred and the problem gets worse and worse.

  Matt Dillon

  Pain, Feel Better, Racism

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Then, you also have that, we all have that sense of wanting to belong. We all have that road-rage, you can relate to that road-rage because you're so frustrated. The sense of frustration, the sense of getting caught, doing something wrong, all those are sort of universal emotions and you just have to make it specific to yourself and you channel this, I don't know what it is, but this inner self and then try to capture the vulnerability.

  Bostin Christopher

  Self, Frustrated, Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Confused, Passion, Creating

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• Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.

  Joel Beeke

  Christian, Preaching The Gospel, Giving

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• I wonder if in part why so many people are angry at Microsoft is not just because their products frustrate them so much, but also because this frustration is ignored. The computer makes people feel like they are dummies, when in fact it is the computer that is stupid.

  Rosalind Picard

  Stupid, People, Microsoft

  The First Monday Interview, firstmonday.org. April, 1998.

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• The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication.

  John C. Maxwell

  Teamwork, People, Confusion

  John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.37, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What's preventing these successful people for being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning. These two skill sets feed off each other, and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Successful, Skills

  "Tony Robbins: Unleashing the Power". Success Interview, www.success.com. December 1, 2008.

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• It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene, or anything like that. I just try to put myself in the characters position, and that helps. It's never really fun, but at the same time, if you're having a really bad day, it's a great way to get out all of your frustration by doing a really angry or sad scene. That's always a good release.

  Abigail Breslin

  Fun, Character, Bad Day

  Source: collider.com

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• I think things are more confused now than in several years, and I think the reason is that the governor is vacillating on it. He's all for it, but he's not doing anything about it. I am certain that his behavior is at the center of the Twins' frustration.

  Steven Schier

  Confused, Thinking, Years

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• Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.

  Donna Barr

  Nice, Grateful, Sleep

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• Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.

  Hortense Odlum

  Disappointment, Interesting, Bitter

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• The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they all become beautiful.

  Hiromi

  Beautiful, Sadness, Negative

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