Quotes about disappointment
disappointment gains originality
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. Conan O'Brien
disappointment book home
I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on other planets, there are no flying cars, and the only robots we have in our homes just sweep the floor. So I wanted to write about a future that I thought could really happen. People ask me when I tell them the title of the book, 'Are we all dead?' The good news is, no. We're still here. And I even think the future in my book is strangely hopeful, although I'm sure there will be people who strongly disagree. Albert Brooks
disappointment men constant
Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment. Clare Short
disappointment two accomplishment
Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement. Dale Carnegie
disappointment leader normal
In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'. Colin Powell
disappointment writing heart
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words. Ann Patchett
disappointment passion fire
Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God Amy Carmichael
disappointment attitude fear
If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say “Just what I expected,” if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
disappointment long quests
In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly. Amos Bronson Alcott
disappointment reality indulge-in
Optimism is the parent of despair, while pessimism allows the mind to accustom itself to the inevitable disappointments of human existence by degrees, just as some drugs induce a state of tolerance. Pessimists, moreover, have the better sense of humour, for they have a livelier apprehension of pretension and absurdity. In a meritocracy, furthermore, those who fail must either indulge in elaborate mental contortions to disguise reality from themselves or sink into a deep melancholy. Anthony Daniels
disappointment careers emptiness
There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled. Alonzo Mourning
disappointment children lying
This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural? Anne Rice
disappointment opportunity grasping
Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Bierce
disappointment stage disillusion
predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
disappointment years three
Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
disappointment thinking idols
There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed. Alice Thomas Ellis
disappointment ends coming-to-an-end
Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever. Anne Lamott
disappointment party nuclear
[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party. Dwight D. Eisenhower
disappointment pride reality
Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves. Dalai Lama
disappointment kids surround-sound
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. David Ogden Stiers
disappointment order careers
I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers. Dani Shapiro
disappointment moving heart
Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end. Daisaku Ikeda
disappointment loss boredom
Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. Cyril Connolly
disappointment expectations world
When you release your expectations that the world should fulfill you, your disappointments vanish. Dan Millman
disappointment animal thinking
When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed us to become more interdependent and interrelated. But the development, the extraordinary development, of those structures and institutions has not fundamentally transformed our humanity. We are still those animals with fears and anxieties and insecurities in the face of death and dread and disappointment and disease. Cornel West
disappointment betrayal people
Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.
disappointment feelings pixar
It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar. Dane Cook
disappointment bye good-bye
I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment. David Levithan
disappointment smart opportunity
Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category. David Einhorn
disappointment children years
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years. Anthony Powell
disappointment age metaphor
By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I knew this only as a vague sense of disappointment at age 10; not until later did I recognize it as a metaphor for much of life. Anna Quindlen
disappointment doors track
He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. "Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip around back? No sneaking through a cracked window, or arguing over who gets to crawl through the dogie door to let the other one in? Carl Jung
disappointment mistake party
Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.