Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink. ~ Steve Jordan

Frustration is when someone can't handle their own thought. ~ Jennifer Leas

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function. ~ Jules Pfeiffer

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body. ~ Norman Cousins

People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations. ~ Jack Lemmon

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. ~ Rod Serling

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. ~ Anthony Robbins

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failure. ~ Charles Noble

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure towards success. ~ Dorothea Brande

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. ~ Pope John XXIII

Frustration is the mother of risk. ~ Gail Sheehy