Quotes about Displeasure

James Dyson

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

Response to question of how great innovations develop.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is a grand thing to get advice and criticism of people who really want to make more useful such things as any of us poor scribes write for the general public. There is just one bit of cheer, however, no matter how much we improve, everyone will never be pleased and therefore we may hope that everyone will never be displeased either.

It is interesting to note that the First Lady described herself as a “poor scribe”. However, she wrote more columns over the years than any other journalist or columnist while doing everything else she did.

Georges St-Pierre

I'm not impressed by your performance.

Rick Wakeman

There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny.

Chris Rea

I'm never happy with anything I've done! If you sat me down and played everything I've ever recorded, I'd just sit there going, 'No... that could be better.'

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

Jodi Picoult

Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

Billy Crystal

When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.

Anthony C. McAuliffe

Nuts!

After being surrounded by the Germans for seven days at what would later be called the Battle of the Bulge, a German officer notified the Americans that they would accept their surrender. McAuliffe’s one word response summed up the resolve of the Americans who were surrounded. The Americans managed to hold the line and defeat the German’s last major offensive of World War II.