Kofi Annan
Diplomat, Politician
"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."
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Lech Walesa
Politician, Activist
"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail."
Hannah Arendt
Philosopher, Political Theorist
"It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth and can be radical."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it."
Sun Ra
Musician
"The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play earth things about what they know, but I found out that they are mostly unhappy and frustrated, and that creeps over into their music."
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"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary."
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"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
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"If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated."
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"People who focus on what they can't control are usually depressed, frustrated, angry, overwhelmed and lost. Sure, there's no way to look at the world and say it's fair, even or just."
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"We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it."
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"You know, people get frustrated because their loved ones who have Alzheimer's, oh, he doesn't recognize me anymore, how can I recognize this person, if they don't recognize me? They're not the same person. Well, they are the same person, but they've got a brain disease. And it's not their fault they've got this disease."
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"If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better."
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"I don't really get too frustrated. I know I'm going to get the ball."
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"When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you."
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"Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking. An impoverished hitch-hiker visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counsellor for neurotic elevators."
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"Be fascinated instead of frustrated."
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"Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters."
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"When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive."
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"Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know."
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"I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?"
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"I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i."
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"The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time."
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"We are wiser than we know."
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"The only time I get frustrated with activist criticism is if I have recognized them, and invited them to work with me to figure out how we solve this problem that they're concerned about, and either they don't engage out of the sense of purity - "I'm not going to shake his hand" - or you're not sufficiently prepared so you don't even know what to ask for, or you're not being strategic as an activist and trying to figure out how the process has to work in order for you to get what you want."
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"I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life."
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