Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 21

• Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

  Faith Prince

  Energy, Symptoms, Force

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• We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Love, Life, Family

  "Sometimes Youthful Stupidity is a Better way to Find Happiness than Making Mature Choices" by Frank Schaeffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2014.

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• I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.

  Martha Wainwright

  People, Tears, Stage

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• Do the Difficult and Uncomfortable If You Would Like an Easy and Comfortable Life.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Easy, Difficult

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• I didn't want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It's just not what I am. I'm a photographer and I make prints. And people buy a print, and I understand that. But I'm uncomfortable with buying an experience.

  Alec Soth

  Artist, People, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 5% of women have true multiple orgasms only through intercourse and these women typically find oral sex uncomfortable.

  Gail Saltz

  Sex, Multiple, Intercourse

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• The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Mother, Teacher, Unknown Worlds

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1888). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”

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• The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.

  William Hazlitt

  Religious, Men, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.232, Delphi Classics

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• The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

  Charles Dickens

  Wind, East, Now And Then

  'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 6 (Mr Jarndyce)

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• Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.

  George Santayana

  Peace, Men, Passionate

  George Santayana (2002). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3”, MIT Press

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• Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level... requires us to do something uncomfortable.

  Jack Canfield

  Powerful, Levels, Produce

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• I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it, it's my personality.

  Jay Chiat

  Personality, Helping, I Can

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• Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Made, Audience, Behinds

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• We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Fear, Believe, Mean

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• The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Tasks, Purpose

  Sebastian Smee, Lucian Freud (2007). “Lucian Freud”, Taschen America Llc

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• It's a little uncomfortable doing love scenes in armor, but, you know, when the heat's on, the heat's on.

  Heath Ledger

  Armor, Littles, Heat

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

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• For the past three years, the Senate intelligence committee has avoided carrying out its oversight of our nation's intelligence programs whenever the White House becomes uncomfortable with the questions being asked. The very independence of this committee is called into question.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Past, Years, White

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• Everyone gets real quiet 'cause they're a little uncomfortable.

  Andy Offutt Irwin

  Real, Littles, Causes

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• Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Real, Ambition, Men

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• Do the uncomfortable and it will widen your circle of comfort.

  Julian Smith

  Inspirational, Circles, Comfort

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• I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.

  Johnny Depp

  Alcohol, Drug, Way

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• Individuals who are uncomfortable with themselves sometimes emit vibes that make others uncomfortable.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Vibes, Sometimes

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• Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable.

  Frank Shamrock

  Mma, Discipline, Training

  Frank Shamrock, Charles Fleming, Mickey Rourke (2012). “Uncaged: My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter”, p.252, Chicago Review Press

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• The uncomfort zone is very important for us... To feel uncomfortable is important to strengthen your spirit. Like the samurai says, if you feel comfortable you must search for the discomfort, don't look only for the easy way.

  Lyoto Machida

  Mma, Important, Looks

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• You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.

  Greg Jackson

  Mma, Panic, Cages

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