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Quotes About Frustration

The more I strive for them the more they utterly elude me
~ Dodie Smith
The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon
~ Dodie Smith
That's what unhappy people do. They hate.
~ Unknown
The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.
~ Don DeLillo
She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.
~ Don DeLillo
Is he one of them now? Frustrated, stuck, self-watching, looking for a means of connection, a way to break out. After Oswald, men in America are no longer required to lead lives of quiet desperation. You apply for a credit card, buy a handgun, travel through cities, suburbs and shopping malls, anonymous, anonymous, looking for a chance to take a shot at the first puffy empty famous face, just to let people know there is someone out there who reads the papers.
~ Don DeLillo
There were times when he felt the lure of a submoronic mode of being.
~ Don DeLillo
Frustration is oftentimes a wonderful alternative to complacency.
~ Unknown
prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into
~ Don Marquis
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
~ Don Marquis
However, the majority of people mistakenly judge external things to be 'good' and therefore experience feelings of desire for things beyond their control, leading to frustration and suffering.
~ Unknown
When people fail to follow these bizarre, secret rules, and the machine does the wrong thing, its operators are blamed for not understanding the machine, for not following its rigid specifications. With everyday objects, the result is frustration. With complex devices and commercial and industrial processes, the resulting difficulties can lead to accidents, injuries, and even deaths.
~ Donald A. Norman
The next time you can't immediately figure out the shower control in a hotel room or have trouble using an unfamiliar television set or kitchen appliance, remember that the problem is in the design. Ask yourself where the problem lies.
~ Donald A. Norman
Design is concerned with how things work, how they are controlled, and the nature of the interaction between people and technology. When done well, the results are brilliant, pleasurable products. When done badly, the products are unusable, leading to great frustration and irritation. Or they might be usable, but force us to behave the way the product wishes rather than as we wish.
~ Donald A. Norman
What are the design implications? Don't count on much being retained in STM. Computer systems often enhance people's frustration when things go wrong by presenting critical information in a message that then disappears from the display just when the person wishes to make use of the information. So how can people remember the critical information? I am not surprised when people hit, kick, or otherwise attack their computers.
~ Donald A. Norman
I told her how frustrating it is to be a Christian in America, and how frustrated I am with not only the church's failures concerning human rights, but also my personal failure to contribute to the solution.
~ Donald Miller
The only reason our customers buy from us is because the external problem we solve is frustrating them in some way. If we can identify that frustration, put it into words, and offer to resolve it along with the original external problem, something special happens. We bond with our customers because we've positioned ourselves more deeply into their narrative.
~ Donald Miller
The three levels of problems heroes (and customers) face are External Problems Internal Problems Philosophical Problems In a story, a villain initiates an external problem that causes the character to experience an internal frustration that is, quite simply, philosophically wrong.
~ Donald Miller
Advertisers personify the problems their customers face in order to capture their imagination and give their frustrations a focal point.
~ Donald Miller
Here are five questions most likely to generate the best response for a customer testimonial: 1.?What was the problem you were having before you discovered our product? 2.?What did the frustration feel like as you tried to solve that problem? 3.?What was different about our product? 4.?Take us to the moment when you realized our product was actually working to solve your problem. 5.?Tell us what life looks like now that your problem is solved or being solved.
~ Donald Miller
In a story, a villain initiates an external problem that causes the character to experience an internal frustration that is, quite simply, philosophically wrong.
~ Donald Miller
What stories teach us is that people's internal desire to resolve a frustration is a greater motivator than their desire to solve an external problem.
~ Donald Miller
The only reason our customers buy from us is because the external problem we solve is frustrating them in some way.
~ Donald Miller
If we can identify that frustration, put it into words, and offer to resolve it along with the original external problem, something special happens. We bond with our customers because we've positioned ourselves more deeply into their narrative.
~ Donald Miller