Discomfort Quotes - Page 6

• Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Humorous, The End Of The Day, Challenging The Status Quo

  "Michael Eric Dyson and 'Is Bill Cosby Right?'". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. May 11, 2005.

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• A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.

  William Morris

  Character, Self, Expression

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• Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?

  J. K. Rowling

  Jinx, Awful, Hello

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• Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

  Donald Miller

  Jobs, Home, Character

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• Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This is the impulse that drives us to repress undesired emotions, thoughts, and past trauma.

  Ben Stewart

  Past, Self, People

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• I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

  Book, Blessing, Thinking

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• For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, People, Giving

  Dan Savage (2000). “The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant”, p.18, Penguin

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• I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Children, Kids, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

  Adam Shankman

  Careers, Safety, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• Listen to your body's wisdom, which expresses itself through signals of comfort and discomfort. When choosing a certain behavior, ask your body, "How do you feel about this?" If your body sends a signal of physical or emotional distress, watch out. If your body sends a signal of comfort and eagerness, proceed.

  Deepak Chopra

  Emotional, Comfort, Watches

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Survival, Way, Should

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• It's very counterintuitive to boil down something so personal, something that requires privacy. All of a sudden, you open it up to the world and put it in a context where you could easily trivialize what you've done. If people sense that discomfort, they're not wrong.

  Kristen Stewart

  People, Done, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realized I'm not special.

  Marian Keyes

  Spiritual, Psychics, Special

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• Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

  William Blum

  Spurs, Degrees, Action

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• Realistically, I shouldn't be able to turn a doorknob without having some discomfort.

  R.A. Dickey

  Able, Turns

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• Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you.

  Pema Chodron

  Irritation, Choices, Rawness

  "Pema Chödrön and Jack Kornfield talk "The Wondrous Path of Difficulties". Interview with Michael Krasny, www.lionsroar.com. 2005.

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• Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice - if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can't have both.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Pain, Sacrifice, Two

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.241, Penguin

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• When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.

  Clayton Christensen

  Self Esteem, Opportunity, Years

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• There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

  David Viscott

  Beauty, Strong, Pain

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• Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

  Freya Stark

  Change, Wise, Men

  Freya Stark (1969). “The zodiac arch”

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• Hmm?' I looked away, flustered automatically using irritation to cover my discomfort up. 'What does 'hmm' have to do with anything? Could you ever use more that five words? All this grunting and minced words make you come across-- primal.' His smile tipped higher. 'Primal.' 'You're impossible.' 'Me Jev, you Nora.' -Nora & Patch (PG 226)

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Irritation, Doe, Use

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale”, p.914, Simon and Schuster

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• You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.

  Lionel Shriver

  Different, Matter, Emotion

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.32, Profile Books

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• Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Rain, Caring, Blow

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• When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.

  Peter McWilliams

  Order, People, Achievement

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too lazy, happily stagnating in the zone of security and comfort. Nor should he push far beyond his edge, stressing himself unnecessarily, unable to metabolize his experience. He should lean just slightly beyond the edge of fear and discomfort. Constantly. In everything he does.

  David Deida

  Stress, Men, Lazy

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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