Discomfort Quotes - Page 4

• I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

  Diana Nyad

  Pain, Mean, Long

  Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)

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• Intuitive guidance means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to take charge of his life and make choices that will break him out of stagnation or misery. And, while we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.

  Caroline Myss

  Self Esteem, Mean, Confusion

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• Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock down safe, comfortable, familiar interpretations, even if they are only partial representations of or fully disconnected from reality.

  Maria Popova

  Creativity, Reality, Locks

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• If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.

  Jet Li

  Giving, Training, Quitting

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• Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken.

  Muhammad Ali

  Winning, Race, Sight

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• The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.

  Barbara Brennan

  Criticism, Kind, Guidance

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• Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Life Changing, Growth

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• Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.

  Robert Orben

  Pain, Medicine, Disease

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• Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

  George Orwell

  Loneliness, Mean, Worry

  George Orwell (1954). “Keep the aspidistra flying”

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• Out of discomfort comes greatness.

  Cindy Gallop

  Greatness

  "Cindy Gallop On Bars In Shanghai And Women In Advertising". ADC Interview, adcglobal.org. November 11, 2013.

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• The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

  John Cleese

  People, Choices, Creative

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• Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.

  Lillian Hellman

  War, Struggle, Ties

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• Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

  William Shakespeare

  Despair, Tongue, Speak

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.254, BookCaps Study Guides

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• With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Feelings, Comforting

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.307, Penguin

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• Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

  Emily Yoffe

  Smell, People, Eating Disorder

  "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

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• An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.

  Michio Kushi

  Hate, Ignorance, Giving

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• Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Comfort, Disease

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• If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they’ve been. If I see a city I see it’s living ghostliness—the stray looks, the dying hands. I see it’s needs and its discomforts locked in apartments.

  Dionne Brand

  Air, Hands, Cities

  Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.122, Vintage Canada

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• I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Black And White, Love Is

  "Living Brave". Interview with Mary Sykes Wylie, Rich Simon, www.psychotherapynetworker.org. September, 2016.

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• As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals
  to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress
  and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for
  pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.

  Aaron T. Beck

  Emotional, Perspective, Drug

  Aaron T. Beck, Fred D. Wright, Cory F. Newman, Bruce S. Liese (2011). “Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse”, p.47, Guilford Press

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• Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Contentment, Literature, Misery

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• Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors.

  Pal Benko

  Mistake, Errors, Feelings

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• A university shouldn't be a place of comfort. It should be a place of discomfort because you want to disabuse these kids of whatever prejudices or preconceptions they have when they come. You're trying to get them to think and develop, not be a Johnny-one-note.

  Charles Koch

  Kids, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

  Michael Adam Hamilton

  Father, Want, Able

  "Michael Adam Hamilton: Celebrating Life and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding in wistful discomfort. The magic that gleams an instant between Argos and Odysseus is both the recognition of diversity and the need for affection across the illusions of form. It is nature's cry to homeless, far-wandering, insatiable man: "Do not forget your brethren, nor the green wood from which you sprang. To do so is to invite disaster.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dog, Men, Cities

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