Tim Commerford Quotes

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

Not being in the playoffs is frustrating.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.

Nothing keeps its promise.

Being number two sucks.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

Some people will always be disappointed.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

Going back to coach in Green Bay was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. I was approached by the organization, and it turned out to be an enormous mistake. I was extremely disappointed. I disappointed the Packers and their fans.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.

I don't know whether it was my fault or someone else's fault, but I was extremely disappointed that my first film was a total washout.

I fumbled my senior year in the playoffs. It just annoyed me.

When I look at my films, all I see is everything that went wrong.