Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 2

• God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

  Ruby Dee

  Peace, American Woman

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• My one fear is failure and that's one fear I have to face all the time. Yes, it's uncomfortable to be scared but I'm finally comfortable being uncomfortable.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, Faces, Scared

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• At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.

  George Orwell

  Agreement, Orthodoxy, Facts

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• Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

  Robert Frost

  Uncomfortable Feeling, Tolerance, Feelings

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• If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable.

  Adrian Rogers

  Long, Decision, Comfort

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• There are a lot of things that are uncomfortable and hard to do, and the longer you put off those things, the harder they get.

  Dave Morin

  Harder, Hard

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• Most of us avoid telling the truth because it's uncomfortable. We're afraid of the consequences-making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings or risking their anger. And yet, when we don't tell the truth, and others don't tell us the truth, we can't deal with matters from a basis in reality.

  Jack Canfield

  Hurt, Reality, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 02, 2013

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• Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspiring, Uncertainty

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• Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but inspiring.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Comforting, Wish, Truth Is

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 05, 2010

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• Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

  Will Rogers

  Pain, Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings

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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. It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it. As former Congressman Ed Forman says, 'Winners are those people who make a habit of doing things losers are uncomfortable doing.' Make today your day to start that uncomfortable new habit.

  Jack Canfield

  Powerful, Skills, People

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• He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

  Douglas Adams

  Feet, Weight

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• If you are ever uncomfortable or are unsure of something, you attribute it.

  Ari Fleischer

  Attributes, Ifs, Unsure

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The people that do understand how the brain works and how the chemicals are released in the brain when they feel uncomfortable, uncertain or doubtful they do it anyway. They overcome the biological and neurological releases by understanding what's causing them and moving forward anyway.

  John Assaraf

  Moving, People, Understanding

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don't understand yourself, you're uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you're anxious, Buddha's teaching is to practice being patient with it.

  Reb Anderson

  Teaching, Practice, Normal

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• It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.

  Seth Godin

  Challenges, Mediocrity, Status Quo

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.55, Penguin

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• 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

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• Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

  E. M. Forster

  Real, Journey, Soul

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• I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

  Jim Morrison

  People, Shakes, Feels

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• I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

  Trent Reznor

  Insecure, Who I Am, Feels

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• I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.

  Erica Brown

  Teacher, Class, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap.

  Tupac Shakur

  Honesty, Rap, Fighting

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• People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Political, Connections

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• It sounds very pretentious, but I don't lie. It's too uncomfortable. A lot of people think because you're an actor that makes you a good liar, but one of the things I can't articulate is a bad lie.

  Martin Shaw

  Liars, Lying, Thinking

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Principles, Thanks

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.357, Princeton University Press

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