Discomfort Quotes - Page 12

• I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

  Myrtle Reed

  Moving, Stills, Moved

  Myrtle Reed (1904). “The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History”

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• in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.

  Dorothea Dix

  Compassion, Want, Cold

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• I have argued tirelessly, nearly endlessly, in so many books, about the need for the social, the economic reconstruction of society. The demand that people be present themselves, that they contribute to the reorganization of society, that they own up to their own complicity in a system from which they derive benefit and advantage, often without acknowledgement, and the discomfort, the uncomfortable way in which that must be acknowledged.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Book, People, Demand

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.

  Angelina Love

  Angel, Desire, Answers

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• Obviously there's no way around discomfort, which is tucked into too many places in our lives. But it is possible to move beyond it.

  Angelina Love

  Moving, Angel, Way

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• I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

  Vicki Baum

  Tired, Infidelity, Secret

  Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London

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• Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.

  A. O. Scott

  Art, Causes, Demise

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• It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery.

  Richard Asher

  Recovery, Surgery, Minors

  A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

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• How dangerous are those sea animals with bad reputations? A few actually kill. A few maim. Some are poisonous when eaten by man. Most sting, stab,or poison and cause mild to severe discomfort to man. Yet man is one of the larger beings that sea creatures encounter, and these poisons usually can't kill him.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Animal, Men, Sea

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• I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are. I laugh after every take just out of the discomfort I feel that I'm even on film. It's an awkward thing for me to be doing. Once we get going, it's always fine, and as we're shooting, I'm never thinking about it. I'd say that all my time in front of the camera is equally uncomfortable for me.

  Seth Rogen

  Thinking, Laughing, Awkward

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• You just have to work with your discomfort. ... It’s challenging, but you have to dance the dance that the band’s playing. You can’t say: “I came here to Cha Cha and they’re playing a Waltz, godammit!”

  Jeff Bridges

  Challenges, Band, Waltz

  "Exclusive: Oscar Nominee Jeff Bridges On Crazy Heart - The RT Interview". Interview with Rosamund Witcher, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. March 1, 2010.

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• The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from relating to uncontaminated areas.

  Donald Glover

  Religious, Pain, Men

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• You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn't the recognizable feelings that make so much difference. It is sensing the edge, the unclear, what you don't recognize, but it is there, the bodily discomfort that the problem makes, which has meaning; it has its own peculiar quality, implicity, it is complex, it has in it everything that relates to that problem, but not in a way you can say.

  Eugene Gendlin

  Differences, Feelings, Making A Difference

  Source: www.focusing.org

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• The theatre demanded of its members stamina, good digestion, the ability to adjust, and a strong sense of humor. There was no discomfort an actor didn't learn to endure. To survive, we had to be horses and we were.

  Helen Hayes

  Strong, Horse, Theatre

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.49, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.

  Wade Davis

  Understanding, Solitude, Risk

  Wade Davis (2010). “The Serpent and the Rainbow”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Middle, Partisans

  Sydney J. Harris (1972). “For the Time Being”

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• You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.

  Jean Cocteau

  Play, Luxury, Comfort

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• Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it is very disconcerting to notice how badly one lives in the sense of the extent to which fatigue and other discomforts are connected with one's important dealings with other people.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Art, People, Style

  Harry Stack Sullivan (2013). “The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry”, p.3, Routledge

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• Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to the soul is to stop fighting with life-to stop fighting when things fall apart, when they don't go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty, and to wait.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Fall, Fighting, Life And Death

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• Too often people enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought, never taking a principled stand. True justice will never come until those who are not injured are just as indignant as those who are

  Kweisi Mfume

  People, Justice, Comfort

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• I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.

  Mark Leibovich

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think it's a really good thing to put yourself in a situation where you feel really uncomfortable because I think things can come out of that discomfort.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Thinking, Good Things, Situation

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is about discomfort and making myself as uncomfortable as the men feel, or putting myself in a situation where I'm revealing my loneliness as much as they're revealing theirs.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Fun, Loneliness, Men

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas.

  Tim Gunn

  Mean, Clothes, Comfort

  Twitter post from Aug 27, 2012

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• You gotta learn to love when you're failing.... The embracing of that, the discomfort of failing in front of an audience, leads you to penetrate through the fear that blinds you. Fear is the mind killer.

  Stephen Colbert

  Mind, Killers, Failing

  "The Late, Great Stephen Colbert" by Joel Lovell, www.gq.com. August 17, 2015.

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