Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 19

• Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the rift between how it sees itself (Kantian autonomism) and how it actually exists (pathetic prole-culture).

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Ego, Culture

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• Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.

  Sarah Lewis

  Motivational, Hard Work, Persistence

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  May, Limits, Push Yourself

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• Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.

  Asa Larsson

  Views, Public Opinion, Crime

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• So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.

  Caroline Myss

  Long, Comfort, Use

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• Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

  Gore Verbinski

  Reading, Sound, Strange

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• I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm thinking about doing something illegal. So, whenever I'm around a cop, I get uncomfortable and nervous, worried that I'll say the wrong thing or look so guilty they'll arrest me anyway. Being completely out of my mind on drugs doesn't help the situation any.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Drug, Police

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• Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful.

  Richard Tyler

  Determination, Commitment, Excellence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Scum Of The Earth, People, Moral

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• I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.

  Young Jean Lee

  Thinking, Theatre, Way

  "Real Gone Gir". Interview with Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice herself; everything that happens has equal significance. Nothing can be dispensed with. This is a common mistake that many people make: They think that half of nature can be destroyed - the uncomfortable half - while still retaining the acceptable and the pleasing side.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Mistake, Eye

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• The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.

  George Carlin

  Wings, Issues, Together

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• That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we 'know' to be present that causes us anxiety.

  Robert Kegan

  Anxiety, Feelings, Half

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• I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Creativity, Novices, Want

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play’". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Expectations, Silence

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.281, Open Road Media

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• But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across the ocean from point A to point B at 30 knots. That's not American democracy. American democracy is kind of like a life raft that bobs around the ocean all the time. Your feet are always wet. Winds are always blowing. You're cold. You're wet. You're uncomfortable -- but you never sink.

  Colin Powell

  Ocean, Wind, Feet

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• Change requires leaving our comfort zones and plunging headfirst into uncomfortable situations. It's true this causes some pain and discomfort for a moment, but it's the quickest path to generating long-term fulfillment.

  Yehuda Berg

  Pain, Uncomfortable Situations, Long

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• I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

  Lin Yutang

  Mean, Behavior

  "Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living".

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• I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'

  Barbra Streisand

  Fear, Want, Awful

  "Fearless People Greet Fear at the Door" by Jonathan Alpert, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Bothering You, Hands

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• I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

  Pete Sampras

  Kids, Guy, Wimbledon

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.

  Mel Gibson

  Horse, Scotland, Scottish

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• I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

  David Coverdale

  Heart, Feelings, Audience

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• Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

  Michael Fassbender

  People, Scratches, Way

  "What's a nice boy like Michael Fassbender doing in a film like Shame?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable.

  Noah Hathaway

  Mean, Littles, Exchanging

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