Quotes About Frustration

delaying gratification, about having to work for something, about dealing with disappointment.

The truth is that a huge percentage of misbehavior is more about can't than won't.

If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

Nobody ever wants to hire me or offer me a job. I think I'm really talented; I really do. Like, people may not like my views about Muslims or whatever.

Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

I grew up with lots of anger, frustration, and violence in my heart.

The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'

Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

I was angry when I was young, but I was never really that violent. I hardly ever fought, mainly because I wasn't very good at it.

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

I could manage my life so much better if an app could tell me exactly when my parcels will be delivered so I don't spend the day under virtual house arrest.

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.

But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

England was very frustrating in the Seventies for anyone who was trying to wake up. It was visible in punk, in clothes, and in the revival of mods and rockers fighting. All kinds of things were going on that just weren't individual to myself.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

Sometimes the only thing to do is yell "Fuck!

Almost is always the hardest, isn't it? Almost getting something.

There's also the issue of glitches. I was once on a Skype session with a patient who was in Asia temporarily, and just as she began crying hysterically, the volume went out. All I saw was her mouth moving, but she didn't know that I couldn't hear what she was saying. Before I could get that across, the connection dropped entirely. It took ten minutes to restore the Skype, and by then not only was the moment lost but our time had run out.)