#pointing

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. ↗

— George Orwell

#happens #illusion #invariably #progress #slow

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#choosing #disappointing #does #half #happiness

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. ↗

— Willard Libby

#clearly #deal #done #forth #goals

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#art form #become #disappointing #entertainment #films

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#about #being #books #children #day

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#around #disappointing #enthusiastic #other #people

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#culture #diminished #disappointing #hungry #kind

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. ↗

— Van Morrison

#being #being famous #complete #disappointing #drag

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#always #because #books #disappointing #know

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy. ↗

— Martin Ryle

#astronomy #chair #me #new #our