The DEVASTATING scale and FREQUENCY of my disappointment was proof of how MUCH I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high HOPES I still had for it.

I'm forever grateful to have had the opportunity to PROVE myself to my dad. After I TOOK over the diner, the LOOK in my FATHER's eyes went from disappointment to RESPECT.

As a KID, falling was embarrassing. As I got OLDER, I got used to falling and picking myself back up. There's not a sense of failure. It's of disappointment. You train so hard to not make MISTAKES. When you do, you're learning from that. How do I improve? How do I get better for the NEXT time? Through every failure, there's SOMETHING to be learned.

In any GIVEN project, there are a few MOMENTS where there is the usual DISAPPOINTMENT, as it were, when you LOOK in the MIRROR, and you realize you're not 23 and looking like Brad Pitt.

Disappointment is a sticky one, because no one can steal CONTENTMENT, JOY, GRATITUDE, or peace - we have to give it AWAY.

I always felt capable of PLAYING at the highest level. The biggest DISAPPOINTMENT is that I've had a lot of injuries.

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important CHANGES which need to be MADE to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was LEFT until after the August RECESS for action.

I always channeled what I felt EMOTIONALLY into skiing - my insecurities, my ANGER, my DISAPPOINTMENT. Skiing was always my outlet, and it WORKED.

We're so preoccupied with PROTECTING CHILDREN from DISAPPOINTMENT and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from GROWING up.

The real story of Netflix is COMPLICATED: an EPIC TALE full of struggle, disappointment, drama, HUMOR, and ACHIEVEMENT.

People WATCH 'The Social Network,' and what they HONE in on is the wealth and the PARTIES and the excitement, and they don't REALIZE the grind and the 'gruelingness' and the disappointment.

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not KEPT, tends to GO HAND in hand with increasing PROSPERITY. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

They may turn out to be a great DISAPPOINTMENT, or PERHAPS they may be FULL of enchanting surprises.

Every one of us have been DISAPPOINTED before and have had to GO through the grieving PROCESS of anger and, you know, disappointment and then acceptance and FORGIVENESS.

FIRST LOVE is first love, first MARRIAGE is first marriage, DISAPPOINTMENT is disappointment.