Steve Eisman Quotes

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

I hated modeling.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

A real job is a job you hate.

Some people will always be disappointed.

I usually hate most of my work: probably at least more than half of it.

There's nothing worse than doing something you really don't enjoy.

I loved practising law when I practised law.

Every time I lose a final, I am disappointed.

I don't make any secret of it - I hate not playing.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure.

The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.