“The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have access to these people, we don't have access. We don't go to dinners we don't have cocktail parties. We don't you know, you've seen what happens when one of us ends up at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, it doesn't end well.” PeopleKnowsWellsEndsShowsGovernmentHappensHouseWhitePartyMediaDinnerAccessFrustrationWhite HouseCocktailsParametersCocktail PartiesDaily Show Author:Jon Stewart
“I've always been interested in miracles, or the miraculous of the unexplained. I don't scoff at what makes people believe or want to believe. I think I understand the tremendous attraction of the mysteries of the church to the same degree that I understand and appreciate the frustration people feel, especially believers, with the human rule-making arm of the church, with the not-miraculous part of the church - any church.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsBelieveHumansChurchMysteryArmsDegreesAppreciateMiracleAttractionBelieverFrustrationMiraculousUnexplained Author:John Irving
“The extremely low respect Congress enjoys among the population indicates that the citizens understand broadly what's going on. But the lack of a realistic political reform path leads to apathy and the kind of mindless frustration that manifests itself in the Tea Party-style hatred of any and all government.” KindGovernmentPoliticalEnjoyPartyPathStyleCitizensLowsHatredCongressPopulationReformTeaFrustrationRealisticApathyTea PartyMindlessPolitical Reform Author:Thomas Pogge
“People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance - all healthy, negative feelings without which people couldn't exist. But then they add, "I absolutely must succeed and must be loved by significant persons, and if I don't, it's terrible and I'm no good." Those are irrational beliefs. As long as people keep them, they'll be terrified of life and will put themselves down when they get rejected.” PeopleIfsPersonsLongFeelingsBeliefDifficultFailingRegretTerribleSorrowHealthySucceedProjectsNegativeAddSignificantFrustrationRejectedIrrationalTerrifiedAnnoyanceNegative FeelingsIrrational Beliefs Author:Albert Ellis
“I think that in the West, many citizens, especially younger citizens, take their freedoms and institutions for granted and focus on their frustrations with their governments' inability to solve pressing problems.” ThinkingProblemGovernmentFocusCitizensInstitutionsWestSolveGrantedFrustrationInability Author:Kofi Annan
“I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just incredible. And when we talk to one another and there is a certain sense of frustration and but I struggle not to let the frustration degenerate into dispair.” KnowsCertainBrainStruggleIncrediblesFrustrationFrustratingNot AloneDrainsNigeriaDegeneratesBrain Drain Author:Chinua Achebe
“Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know there was a certain complex I had in the beginning that was just a little paranoid or a little...sensitive.” KnowsLittlesCertainComplexesSensitiveFrustrationMainstreamParanoid Author:Eminem
“I know what it feels like to be in that middle and lower-middle class, and feel like the culture is passing you by; it translates into a great sense of personal frustration that can then morph into political frustration.” KnowsFeelsPoliticalCultureClassMiddlePassingPassingsFrustrationMiddle ClassTranslate Author:George Saunders
“A soldier in Iraq said that he wanted to "punch Donald Rumsfeld in the gut, then in the face" or something like that. He wanted me to use his name, but I knew he'd get in trouble, so I didn't. However, I felt it was a great quote because it summed up the frustration of those guys at that moment.” MomentsGuyTroubleSoldierGutsFrustration Author:Michael Hastings
“There's a level of frustration and anger here in the United States that we're not prosecuting this war, and we're actually in discussions about bringing over Muslim refugees into this country, with a president who's now mocking, you know, the talk radio people, mocking the audience on talk video, mocking the sites like Breitbart, that are bringing up these issues.” PeopleWarCountryPresidentAudienceDiscussionFrustrationRefugee Author:Stephen K. Bannon
“The big frustration for me is that people are growing so cynical about politics that you see them basically shrug and say, "Oh, yeah. Who cares that Harper is shutting down debate? Who cares that he's building prisons, and everything? All the politicians are the same so why should we be outraged about one rather than the other?" And my point is Canadians need to wake up. This is not the Canada they'd recognize if they looked closely.” PeopleCareBuildingPoliticianWake UpPrisonDebateFrustrationCynicalOutraged Author:Justin Trudeau
“What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the viewer: The viewer is here, the art is there. So the viewer is in a position of desire and frustration. There were those Do Not Touch signs in a museum that are saying that the art is more expensive than the people. But I wanted users and a habitat. I don't know if I would have used those words then, but I wanted inhabitants, participants. I wanted an interaction.” PeopleThinkingArtDesireArt IsFrustrationUsers Author:Vito Acconci
“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.” IfsFeelsGamesPiecesMovedChessOpponentsFrustrationChess GameChess Pieces Book:Either/or Source: Either/or
“Today, for good or ill, people are thinking about many social problems from the standpoint of their own kitchen tables. I think the way to begin a conversation with people about what's going on is to address their daily experiences, and what their fears and frustrations, as well as their exhilarations, are.” PeopleThinkingProblemTodayIllKitchenFrustration Author:Robert Reich
“Try it, folks, try it. Try it for a week without watching cable news. Now, if you're a news consumer and if you are quasi-addicted, then you're gonna have to find other ways of informing yourself, and you can do that. You can inform yourself of the same things you'll see on cable TV. What you will miss is all the incendiary opining on both sides. You'll miss the anger. You'll miss the constant lack of resolution to anything. And most of all you'll miss the frustration.” TryingWeekMissingFrustrationResolution Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The fifties were pretty rebellious, a pretty rebellious period, around that time. And it was preceding the whole zoot suit thing which I think really contributed to a lot of anxiety, to a lot of frustration, a lot of blaming. And it just like boom, it was very destructive for us as a people, that right away put us on like we had to defend ourselves on every level, every moment. We seemed like we always had to be on guard.” PeopleThinkingMomentsAnxietyBlameFrustrationRebellious Author:Willie Herron
“Having people around you that are honest with you, and having a team around you that can actually track and communicate where things are working and where they're not working, is really an invaluable asset to an artist's career. I just see it time and again, people who have no clue about that stuff. It's frustrating, and I see the frustration for them. It's a weird thing being an artist, trying to navigate the music business with little to no help.” PeopleTryingHelpingArtistTeamHonestTrackCommunicateFrustrationClueFrustratingMusic BusinessBeing An Artist Author:Muneshine
“Maybe people are not able to define their fears. But they have them, and it shows from their behavior. There is so much frustration and anger.” PeopleBehaviorFrustration Author:Andre Vltchek
“I don't look at Putin as a friend. I don't look at Russia. And I am very skeptical of what they're doing, their intentions. There are a lot of good people in Russia that don't have any say whatsoever. And they're starting to basically express their frustration, and starting marching, and hopefully getting their point across. So we've got to make sure that we put the hurt on the oligarchs, all the money, the way the money flows through Russia, and the people that benefit by it.” PeopleHurtIntentionHopefullyFrustrationGood PeopleSkeptical Author:Joe Manchin
“In the era of modern technology, people could just vote on their phones for who they want to be judges. We could amend all of the ways in which we select our leaders, with the advent of modern technology. We haven't done so. It's actually served us fairly well. Ours is the longest enduring constitutional, written constitution in the world. At the moment, I think it's strained. It's showing the strains of politics and a frustration.” PeopleThinkingWorldDoneMomentsLeaderTechnologyModernJudgingVoteConstitutionEndureFrustrationSelectAdventModern Technology Author:Martha Minow
“I think frustration unfortunately, reflects a real breakdown in the political parties themselves, which is fascinating because our constitution did not anticipate political parties. They're not even written in the Constitution, there's no guidelines. When we look at the arcane processes of delegate selection in the primaries and caucuses, it's not in the Constitution. This is all created post Constitution. And yet I think we're in the middle of tensions between and within the political parties. They're not functioning that well.” ThinkingRealPoliticalPartyConstitutionTensionFrustrationPolitical PartiesBreakdown Author:Martha Minow
“I asked the American people do not give in to the fear. Do not give into the frustration. We can disagree about public policy. We can disagree about it vibrantly, passionately, but we are a hopeful people. And we have every right to be hopeful.” PeopleGivingPolicyFrustrationHopefulDisagreePublic Policy Author:Marco Rubio
“You know, I have never seen the level of anger and frustration and resentment and even disgust among millions of Americans toward the media. And I think there are a lot of self-inflicted wounds here, big mistakes that are not learned from, but also a lot of it the byproduct of a campaign in which the press appeared to be out of touch with the frustration of the many millions of Americans who helped put Donald Trump into the White House and just the way we botched it.” ThinkingHouseMistakeWoundsFrustrationResentmentDisgustingBig Mistake Author:Howard Kurtz
“2016 is an election like I've never seen before. And I think it reflects the fact that many people have a dissatisfaction with politics as usual. So I think this is a time where both parties should be humble, reach out to each other and try to find ways to build on common ground to serve the concerns, the rightful frustrations of the American people.” PeopleThinkingTryingPartyCommonConcernElectionHumbleFrustrationReach OutBe HumbleDissatisfaction Author:Cory Booker
“I think Donald Trump successfully tapped into the frustration and anger across the white males and across the working people in general. But when you give them the facts about his policies, that he thinks our wages are too high, that he supports right-to-work, they come back across the bridge. Look, in the last election, we had the same problem with Barack Obama. It was because of race, not sex at that point or gender.” PeopleThinkingGivingProblemSupportPolicyElectionGenderBarackFrustration Author:Richard Trumka
“I was full of energy, and I had a lot of bottled up rage that would come out in my stage performances. It was therapy sessions for someone who couldn't afford to go to therapy, a way to release my frustration, my inhibition. When I was little, growing up in an abusive household, I felt like I didn't have a voice. Suddenly I was on stage and people were watching me and listening to me, so even if I was singing about something that didn't have to do with abuse, when I was on stage I could express all of the anger, the rage.” PeopleEnergyGrowing UpListeningSingingAbuseRageTherapyFrustrationAbusiveInhibitions Author:Alice Bag
“It doesn't seem that the female brain is organized for fetishes. I suspect it has to do with our animal backgrounds. Fetishes are a frustration fall back for men cut out of the breeding Olympics. The female can always get sex. It's her role to deny sex.” MenFallAnimalBrainCuttingFemaleFrustrationFall Back Author:Dian Hanson
“I think Gary Johnson was probably expressing frustration at a series of pop quizzes. He actually was more authoritative on what to do in Syria before the Aleppo moment than any of the other candidates. And I think he called it about right. There is too many different rebel groups there. And it`s a terribly confused situation.” ThinkingDifferentMomentsSituationConfusedFrustrationRebelSyriaGary Author:William Weld
“To me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration. It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very ill - he was an alcoholic - so there were a lot of things that built up for me. And because I was going to a Catholic school in a small German town, a lot of it was suppressed. I was angry and didn't know how to get it out.” BelieveKidsSchoolFatherActingCatholicIllFrustrationHard To BelieveCatholic School Author:Diane Kruger
“Music, for the moment, has been this hidden thing for me. For the first time, I am master of something. I am not used by someone else, like in movies or pictures, where you always have the happiness or disappointment of knowing it's you seen through someone else's point of view. You go to see a film and half of the pretty scenes are not in it-the ones you liked. Living with this frustration all the time, suddenly music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything.” MomentsHomeFilmSceneFirst TimeDisappointmentPoint Of ViewFrustration Author:Lou Doillon
“As far as the lyrics go, I think I was negotiating a moment in my life where I didn't feel happy. I think I had some existential frustration and I was wrestling with that on a few different levels. I was feeling like I wanted to change a lot of things.” ThinkingDifferentMomentsFeelingsFrustrationWrestlingExistential Author:Rostam Batmanglij
“For me, respect is an extremely important political term. Since I began campaigning, it has been at the heart of each of my speeches. Many people have the feeling that politicians aren't paying a sufficient amount of attention to them. And then, when the refugees arrived on top of all problems, there was a feeling: You do everything for them, but nothing for us. This mixture of frustration and fear has led to this reaction. That is why it is so important to show these people: We respect you.” PeopleHeartImportantFeelingsProblemPoliticalTermAttentionPoliticianFrustrationRefugeeCampaigning Author:Martin Schulz
“There was always this sort of weird process in the development and pre-production, thinking, 'How do we get the studio tracks that Joy Division recorded that are so clean and pristine but sound rough and live and how do we get the live versions to actually sound clear enough so you can make out what they're saying?' That was sort of the frustration with Anton Corbijn and myself, figuring out how we make that work.” ThinkingEnoughJoyTrackFrustrationRough Author:Orian Williams
“I had a lot of frustrations about my career. A lot of, you know, times where I felt I should've been considered for a part that I wasn't considered for.” Frustration Author:Lauren Bacall
“A frustration that I've had recently is that a lot of songs that I listen to draw on scenarios that aren't very realistic, so I just wanted to do something that was more down to earth. And I think my fans, who already know a lot about me, will learn something new.” ThinkingEarthSongFrustrationSomething NewRealistic Author:Louis Tomlinson
“I try to stop myself from getting frustrated. I'm not a hundred percent successful, but I'm a thousand times better than I used to be. Anyone who's angry, nasty or rude is really offering a plea to be loved. I play a game with myself, trying to convert them from what I call low-energy emotions that drain us - frustration, irritation, anger and impatience - into high-energy emotions that sustain us - love, caring, kindness.” TryingEmotionKindnessSuccessfulCaringFrustrationFrustratedNastyRudeImpatience Author:Wayne Dyer
“I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.” TryingDrinkingFrustration Author:Lars von Trier
“Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.” LongSometimesFilmSorrowFrustration Author:Patti Smith
“I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am an absolute parasite. While I was writing my book on comparative philosophy I was drawing on some fantastic scholars - university based people. The academy is absolutely necessary, but there should also be a role for those bringing it together. It's such a frustration sometimes.” PeopleWritingBookSometimesPhilosophyTogetherLuckyFantasticFrustrationScholar Author:Julian Baggini
“But for me it's very difficult to finish music on my own. It's the fear of losing the fun. It's very easy to get a sketch of something or an idea together in a very short time, to try out something new, but to get a five minute track to play out is much harder, at least for me. When I start to construct something, it often ends in frustration.” TryingTogetherFunEasyDifficultLosingTrackFrustrationSomething New Author:Erik Wiegand
“There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. There's often two words that are close in meaning, yet what I'm trying to say is in between them, or it might be a little more layered and nuanced. Having this conversation with you is exciting, because I can feel you resonate, even though we're on the phone. That's really beautiful to me.” TryingBeautifulLanguageExcitingFrustrationReally Beautiful Author:Arca
“One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. Because I think if I had to write another novel now I would really not be good in my head anymore. It's too much. The frustration is so intense of knowing that this structure is right around the corner. Writing is a particular kind of frustration.” ThinkingWritingKindArtNovelBe GoodIntenseFrustration Author:Rebecca Miller
“Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.” ActingYeahFrustrationTherapeuticAnger And Frustration Author:Diane Kruger
“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.'” WayViolenceStonesReleaseFrustrationNervesListenersRollingPenetrateRolling StonesGroove Author:Jon Landau
“Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.” ShouldTryingSaidThreeCareersArroganceFrustrationThree ThingsVenues Author:Eric Bana
“Expectation is the mother of all frustration.” MotherExpectationsFrustrationNew Beginnings Author:Antonio Banderas
“In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways.” ThinkingWayYearsLongWholeRunningFilmShareTvsVery GoodDisappointmentBunchFrustrationLong RunsAnnoyance Author:George R. R. Martin
“I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.” PeopleThinkingWritingChildrenBookMightWantedClassGrowing UpGrowingSpeechHearingAidsContraryFrustrationChicagoDeafHivDeafnessHearing Aids Author:Marlee Matlin
“It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.” WayLinesHarmCriminalsAdministrationFrustrationCiviliansMisguidedServicemen Author:Dave Matthews
“Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.” WayTryingMotivationalActingDoorsFrustration Author:Joyce Meyer