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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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• I violated apparently an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington.

  Mark Leibovich

  Thinking, Care, Welcome

  "'This Town' Author Mark Leibovich: 'I Violated An Unspoken Rule...' (VIDEO)". Interview with Mike Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2013.

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• Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one has experienced through life, by what one has seen or heard; it also depends upon one's belief in a certain religion, one's birth in a certain nation and origin in a certain race. But what can really be called good or bad, right or wrong, is what comforts the mind and what causes it discomfort. It is not true, although it appears so, that it is discomfort that causes wrongdoing. In reality, it is wrongdoing which causes discomfort, and it is right-doing which gives comfort.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Reality, Race, Giving

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• There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Meditation Practice, Feelings

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• I mean, in terms of comfort, it was horrible, but we knew the sequence was going to be good. That sort of drives you forward when you know what you're working on is going to be fun. You'll go through all manner of discomfort to get the shot.

  Michael Chiklis

  Fun, Mean, Comfort

  Source: collider.com

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• The only difference between comedy and drama is that, in comedy, I'm going to utilize the tool of creating laughter to deflect discomfort and, in drama, I won't use a tool, but we're going to actually deal with the discomfort and see what comes out of it.

  Romany Malco

  Laughter, Drama, Differences

  Source: collider.com

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• If you can out last that discomfort! I guarantee you baby; on the other side of it is success.

  Eric Thomas

  Baby, Guarantees, Lasts

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• I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Art, Laughter, Confused

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• I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Numbers, People, Risk

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.

  Peter Menzel

  Sleep, Night, Ninety Nine

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• Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Real, Diversity, Tolerance

  "Calming our fears" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2007.

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