Quotes About Frustration

Anybody who's spent any time with machines at all,' he added, 'and baby, that's us all, knows first and foremost there's only one thing certain about them, computer or bicycle. They go wrong.

Unfortunately life has a way of sidetracking one's greatest ambitions. Painters, would-be artists, end up whitewashing walls. Sculptors are forced to design toilets. Writers become critics or publicists. Archaeologists, like myself, can become gravediggers.

After clearing away innumerable dog-hairs, swatting countless fleas and extracting from the carpet the remnants of a shattered glass eye, she protested to the University's comptroller of works that, if this sort of thing was going to keep happening, she deserved a small pay raise.

I told you so',was Abdullah Noman's favourite song,because he was cursed with the curse of knowing too much and the double curse of being unable to avoid pointing this out even though it made Firdus Begum threaten to hit him on the head with a stone.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

We set the table, but no one ate.

Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.

There have been many frustrating games. I don't there's going to be another one that isn't frustrating. That happens, but that's sport. Otherwise why would there be so much glory in victory.

My golf has really improved even though my score hasn't. I'm missing the ball much closer now.

What a terrible round. I only hit two good balls all day and that was when I stepped on a rake in a bunker.

Get the hell out of my way!

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.

Stress is being responsible for things that you have no control over.

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

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

The World Cup was a huge frustration because I had prepared really hard for it. But in the World Cup there is no formula, no recipe for success.

Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

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

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.