Quotes About Frustration

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.

People sometimes complain and it can feel like they think we want to lose. We're not machines where one plus one is always two.

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.

Move the ball and score points. If we don't do that, I'm frustrated. Simply put.

I lost a lot of judo matches because of points fighters. It was extremely frustrating for me.

I got snubbed about eight times for the Mid-Summer Classic, and I know what type of career I had, and I know that I'm a true All-Star. The selection process is not very accurate.

I'd just come out of drama school, didn't get anything, had to move back in with my parents and do a night-time cleaning job.

I love cooking except for an annoying step - cleaning up.

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

It's tough to lose and lose and lose and get a little closer, but you still lose.

The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.

Even when I played in club matches, I would take it to heart that I had got out early.

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

When I am really angry, I clam up, go cold.

I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.

Sometimes I can write very angry columns, but I know that it doesn't work.