Uncomfortable Situations Quotes

• Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Change, Single

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 28, 2013

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

  Jillian Michaels

  Life, Fitness, Determination

  61 Copy quote

• 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, Long, Leaving

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• You need to push yourself, put yourself in uncomfortable situations rather than stick to your comfort zone.

  Gwenno

  Needs, Sticks, Comfort Zone

  Source: thequietus.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations. I grew up in a tough area of Dublin, and fighting was just part of your life. Boys fight, and I won some, but I lost a lot too, and I didn't like that, I didn't like that feeling of not knowing whether I was in danger, in trouble.

  Conor McGregor

  Fighting, Boys, Games

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a way to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation imaginable.

  Sandra Bullock

  Crazy, House, Leaving

  "Sandra Bullock: 'Why I hate romantic comedies'". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.

  Anne Lamott

  Acceptance, Reality, Filling Up

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.178, Anchor

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

  Trent Reznor

  Enemy, Trying, Complacency

  25 Copy quote

• {Losing can be a great motivator] but not if it drains your confidence. One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations.

  Conor McGregor

  Games, Losing, Reason

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Feels, Knows, Uncomfortable

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com. March 3, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I moved cities for about four months to try to provoke some inspiration and put myself in an uncomfortable situation where I would be meeting new people and have a change in locale. I look back at my career and one of my favorite records I ever made was right after I moved to Nashville.

  Matt Wertz

  Inspiration, Nashville, Cities

  Source: maroonweekly.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

  Brian Regan

  Laughing, Tragedy, Comedy

  Source: edition.cnn.com

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford to be. It's really an uncomfortable situation, since I'm not an illustrator, though I do get calls from morally indefensible businesses offering me money to decorate their ambitions. It's extremely rare, almost unheard of, in fact, that I am asked to do a comic strip. Do writers get calls to pen Toyota advertisements? Do composers get asked to write chamber pieces about exercise machines?

  Chris Ware

  Writing, Ambition, Exercise

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Escaping, Frying Pans

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.

  Romany Malco

  Laughter, Tools, Use

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Insulate yourself...
  from anonymous angry people
  Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand
  Precisely measure the results that are important to you
  Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter
  Fail often
  Ship
  Lead, don't manage so much
  Seek out uncomfortable situations
  Make an impact on the people who matter to you
  Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else
  Copyedit less, invent more
  Give more speeches
  Ignore unsolicited advice

  Seth Godin

  Art, Impact, Skills

  4 Copy quote