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  • What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.

    Believe   Boys   Parent  
    "On the Contrary".
  • Invest in the "process" rather than the product. Process living neutralizes the depleting and impoverishing effects of chronically living in anticipation. Even when impossible goals occasionally are reached, satisfactions derived from them are invariably disappointing unless the process has given ample satisfaction along the way.

    Goal   Perspective   Way  
  • When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not.

    Two   Issues   Way  
  • It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

    One Writer's Beginnings ch. 1 (1983)
  • After the second Die Hard, Bruce Willis stated he would never do another. He should have stayed firm in his resolve. If quality is any indication (and it may be, with all the available blockbusters), box office returns will be disappointing this time around and, if nothing else, that will do to John McClane what dozens of assorted bad guys couldn't manage: kill him.

    "Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,
  • If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

    Pain   Real   Struggle  
    Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group
  • It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing.

    People   Fake   Trying  
    Source: www.rightwingbob.com
  • Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.

    Men   Thinking   Want  
    "Seal Interview: I know why Tiger cheated.. but I'd never do that to my Heidi" by Rachel Corcoran, www.mirror.co.uk. September 19, 2010.
  • I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.

    "TalkAsia" with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2007.
  • I think part of the disappointing failure of the political process in America today is that it's asking us to forget countries' historic connections to other countries, or to the laws that have been made. They're willfully asking people to forget their country's history, and focus only on the present. It's bizarre.

    Source: www.thedailybeast.com
  • It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

    "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.
  • It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?

  • Not scoring one for the whole calendar year last year was a bit disappointing but I didn't really feel any pressure to get my first one as skipper,.

    Years   Calendars   Lasts  
  • It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

    Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.361, Simon and Schuster
  • unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

  • It was crushingly disappointing as a fan of The Simpsons to discover that it's just you in a room speaking into a microphone. I thought I was going to become friends with Homer Simpson, but unfortunately none of them are real.

    Real   Fans   Rooms  
  • Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.

    Long   Sometimes   Habit  
  • As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful in those schools in which the resources available to help the children learn the skills that will be measured by these tests are fewest, the scores they get are predictably the lowest, and the strategies resorted to by principals in order to escape the odium attaching to a disappointing set of numbers tend to be the most severe.

    Children   Believe   Kids  
    Jonathan Kozol (2005). “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, p.110, Broadway Books
  • I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth spoken so often, than, say, at the DMV, or home alone, orbiting my own mind. And it's good to be out where others can see you, so you can't be your ghastly spoiled self. It forces you to act slightly more elegantly, and this improves your thoughts, and thereby the world.

    Home   Self   Mind  
  • Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

    George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • There is a big difference between a disappointing friend and a deadly enemy. Of course the Democrats are disappointing. That's what makes them Democrats. If they were any more frustrating they'd be your relatives. But in this country they are all that stands between you and darkest night. You know why their symbol is the letter 'D'? Because it's a grade that means good enough, but just barely. You know why the Republican symbol is 'R'? Because it's the noise a pirate makes when he robs you and feeds you to a shark.

    Country   Mean   Night  
  • I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.

  • If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

    John C. Maxwell (2014). “Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership”, p.148, Hachette UK
  • When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

    Mother   Grateful   Focus  
    "This Mom's Life: Katherine Heigl" by Cortney Pellettieri, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2012.
  • The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

  • This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

  • I'm not allowed to make a joke. It is a bit unfair how I'm treated. I thought it was a joke. I got calls and messages. I would rather not to have to worry about things like that. It is disappointing.

  • Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

  • What is really disappointing about this president is not just lack of leadership, but his tendency to always place the blame for his lack of leadership somewhere else

  • Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

    Artist   Voice   Support  
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