Frustration Quotes

What happens to a dream deferred?

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. Unfortunately, some people don't get to the other side... They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead.

I can hardly forbear hurling things at him.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had not returned that diamond, or led the club, or roughed the spade, or finessed the heart, or led through the honour, or brought out the ace, or played up to the king, or some such thing; and in reply to all these grave charges, Mr. Pickwick would be wholly unable to plead any justification whatever, having by this time forgotten all about the game.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a - You think It's a happy beat? Listen to it closely: Ain't you heard something underneath like a - What did I say? Sure, I'm happy! Take it away! Dream Boogie Hey, pop! Re-bop! Mop! Y-e-a-h!

At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'

Often people talk about how they feel 'stuck' in a situation. You're never stuck! You may be a little frustrated, you may not have clear answers, but you're not stuck. The minute you represent the situation to yourself as being stuck, though, that's exactly how you'll feel. We must be very careful about the metaphors we allow ourselves to use.

I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

New York traffic can drive you crazy.

A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

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

Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.

It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

Understand that all emotions serve you. Those you once thought of as negative emotions are merely calls to action. For example, if you feel frustrated it means that you believe things could be better, and they're not. This is a call to action telling you there's something you must do to make this better now. This "negative" emotion is actually a gift if you use it effectively.

My curse on playsThat have to be set up in fifty ways,On the day's war with every knave and dolt,Theater business, management of men.

I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!

My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves.

All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face.

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.

Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.

Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one.

Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.

If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.

The message of frustration is an exciting signal. it means that your brain beleives you could be doing better than you currently are.

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

I think that where I've gotten frustrated during the course of my presidency has never been because I was getting pushed too hard by activists to see the justness of a cause or the essence of an issue.

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.

How slowThis old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,Like to a stepdame, or a dowager,Long withering out a young man's revenue.

Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.

There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

If you don't know a light bulb is a three-way light bulb, it messes with your head. You reach to turn it off, and it just gets brighter! That's the exact opposite of what I wanted you to do! So you turn the switch again, and it gets brighter once more! I will break you, light bulb!

The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.

At the end of every year, I add up the time that I have spent on the phone on hold and subtract it from my age. I don't count that time as really living. I spend more and more time on hold each year. By the time I die, I'm going to be quite young.