- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disappointment Quotes
Lines on the letdowns that stay with us.
One entry here comes from someone in biotech reflecting on how, despite genuine progress in the field, no single breakthrough has matched earlier hopes. Another looks back at engineering work from decades past, noting how much less reliable the tools once were compared to now. See related lines on the Hope quotes page.
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- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
- Maturity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal contentment, joy, gratitude, or peace - we have to give it away.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a certain extent, I think I've tried to train myself to not dive too deep into things or get my hopes too way up, because the fear of disappointment and whatnot is only natural.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone at home thought I was nuts when I said I wanted to be an actress, and I'm sure they were just trying to protect me from disappointment.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be a disappointment for me to take a job, as often happens, having to shoot out-of-town and not where I live.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020