Quotes About Frustration

A film is born in my head. I try to make it, but I never succeed. What I want to do is impossible. It's beyond my capacity.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

Joe Blakley said, "I hate school!" "Just 'cause you didn't know the answer a while ago?" said Dan Rogers. Mrs. Long had caught Joe staring out the window instead of paying attention during math. "Know the answer ?" said Randall. "Joe didn't even know the question !

Cheer up!" said Mr. Sutton when he'd read the letter. "Kathy Alice may come to see you!" All the children groaned. "Earnestine wants to meet your Aunt Myrtle and Uncle Ross and Kathy Alice here on Thanksgiving Day." "Tell her we won't be home," said Ellen. "Where will we be?" asked Dewey. "Anywhere except here," said Ellen, "if they're coming to see us.

[Ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

It is far more common to fight your way through terrible software designs than it is to enjoy the pleasure of working with a good one.

So now we enter the Death March Phase of the project. Customers are angry. Stakeholders are angry. The pressure mounts. Overtime soars. People quit. It's hell.

No matter how many times I cut this, its never long enough.

It was one of those situations where you just say fuck it. Fuck the job, fuck management.

If you lose contact with this inner calling, you can have some success in life, but eventually your lack of true desire catches up with you. Your work becomes mechanical. You come to live for leisure and immediate pleasures. In this way you become increasingly passive, and never move past the first phase. You may grow frustrated and depressed, never realizing that the source of it is your alienation from your own creative potential.

To show your frustration is to show that you have lost your power to shape events; it is the helpless action of the child who resorts to a hysterical fit to get his way. The powerful never reveal this kind of weakness.

We often notice a similar sensation of confusion and helplessness when it comes to ourselves and our own behavior. For instance, we suddenly say something that offends our boss or colleague or friend— we are not quite sure where it came from, but we are frustrated to find that some anger and tension from within has leaked out in a way that we regret.

old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

She's not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.

Bloody ashes, woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots.

Blood and Bloody Ashes! - Mat in a Wheel of Time

I thought you were dead," Bera breathed. Cadsuane sniffed irritably. "I am growing tired of hearing that. The next imbecile I hear it from is going to yelp for a week.

What was irritating was that they sat there with their heads together as though he had ceased to exist. Neither looked around until he cleared his throat again, loud enough that he wondered whether he had strained something.

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.

Lews Therin hummed even harder, making Rand wish the man had a face so he could hit him.

What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want. Lews Therin laughed maniacally. It

Finally the gleeman seemed to tire of hearing him say "I will do what I must," and stopped coming. It seemed that he did not want to compose his epic unless it could be full of pained emotion. The man looked frustrated when he stalked off for the last time, cloak fluttering furiously behind him.