#disappointment

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

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We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#common sense #complexities #disappointments #focus #hassles

The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of. ↗

— David Gower

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But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man. ↗

— Hugh Grant

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I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it. ↗

— Terry Gross

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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

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I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead. ↗

— John Surtees

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Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years. ↗

— David Wain

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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it. ↗

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

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