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Quotes About Frustration

Her hand jerked, leaving an angry slash in the middle of the canvas. A headache drummed to life in the back of her skull. It's not going to happen today. She ignored the shiver that skipped down her spine. This is a normal day. I'm painting a normal composition. But it was too late. It was happening already. She squeezed her eyes shut against the images flooding her brain, but no resistance would help now. She couldn't escape.
~ Unknown
Tired is the catchall for everything when you're a parent of a small child. When your child throws a tantrum, when your child refuses to kiss his grandmother, when your child doesn't say thank you, when your child does anything remotely shitty, you can always just say: He's tired or She didn't get enough sleep last night and you're off the hook.
~ Dana Reinhardt
Three-hour layover in Seattle. If you were flying Alaska Airlines and you wanted to go to hell you had to fly through Seattle to get there.
~ Dana Stabenow
Damon sank back down into the chair and raked his hands down over his face. Lady Simms sat quietly across from him, not saying a word. Unable to stand it any longer, he looked up and impaled her with a stare hot enough to melt rock. "I suppose you think me a raving madman now, don't you?
~ Unknown
Really, Doctor, why do they insist upon giving us such a devil of a time?
~ Unknown
Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
~ Danica McKellar
Nothing builds community like complaining.
~ Daniel Alarcon
What does a car bomb say about poverty, or the execution of a rural mayor explain about disenfranchisement?... The war had become, it it wasn't from the beginning, an indecipherable text.
~ Daniel Alarcon
By the tie I arrived at the clinic I was typically so demoralized I could barely stand. I was twenty-three years old and I looked like Nixon resigning the presidency.
~ Daniel B. Smith
God, it drives me crazy when I know exactly what I want and I can't find it anywhere! It's like does anybody want my money!? I mean what the fuck!?
~ Daniel Clowes
Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.
~ Daniel Clowes
You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer!
~ Daniel Clowes
You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?
~ Daniel Clowes
But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!
~ Daniel Clowes
I am currently learning how to work the blasted technology of this infuriating dominant culture. If this was the neolithic i'd still be all boss!
~ Unknown
ANT Species of ANT Kill the ANT You never listen to me. "Always/Never" Thinking I get frustrated when you don't listen to me, but I know you have listened to me and will again. The boss doesn't like me. Mind Reading I don't know that. Maybe she's just having a bad day. Bosses are people, too. The whole class will laugh at me. Fortune-telling I don't know that. Maybe they'll really like my speech.
~ Unknown
When you have a deficiency of progesterone and an imbalance of hormones, it literally feels like the "decision part" of your brain has been taken away from you. Women describe feeling like they are watching themselves handle situations with anger and frustration, as if they were someone else.
~ Unknown
A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'
~ Daniel Goleman
When frustration is unchecked, Sam, it turns into rage, and rage triggers action.
~ Daniel Gottlieb
One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. (Indeed, Csikszentmihalyi titled his first book on autotelic experiences Beyond Boredom and Anxiety.)
~ Daniel H. Pink
Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation (2017) By Alan Burdick A wonderful and witty work of science journalism that captures the complexity, frustration, and exhilaration of trying to understand the nature of time.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Indeed. With NT, I can usually see in a matter of minutes that what I'm trying to do simply can't be done with the available software.
~ Daniel J. Bernstein
la conciencia se fragmenta y eso da lugar a la experiencia de una mente disociada con problemas para regular la emoción, tratar con otras personas, manejar la frustración y simplemente avanzar en la vida de una manera coherente.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
When we say to embrace emotions, we mean that during redirection, parents need to help their kids understand that their feelings are neither good nor bad, neither valid nor invalid. They simply are. There's nothing wrong with getting angry, being sad, or feeling so frustrated that you want to destroy something. But saying it's OK to feel like destroying something doesn't mean it's OK to actually do it.
~ Daniel J. Siegel