Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 15

• England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Running, Insulting, Racist

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• I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

  Carol Leifer

  Thinking, Self, Starting Out

  "The One Woman You MUST Know About Before Watching the Oscars This Sunday. (Hint: She's Known as the Real "Elaine" on Seinfeld!)". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. February 24, 2012.

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• There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of that. We are encouragers of coming into alignment, and then taking the action. We are encouragers always of getting rid of the fear; we would never want you to keep doing things that you feel fearful about. And maybe the path of least resistance is just not get on the horse. Maybe the path of least resistance is to get on a different horse - but we would never move forward in fear.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

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• For me, as a Christian I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right.

  Torii Hunter

  Christian, Teaching

  "In pro sports, gay athletes still feel unwelcome" by Kevin Baxter, articles.latimes.com. December 29, 2012.

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• I spend most of my time wearing uncomfortable things, so for me, it's all about trainers.

  Cara Delevingne

  Shoes, Trainers, My Time

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• I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

  David Sedaris

  Calling, Okay, Felt

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• Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change.

  Megyn Kelly

  Mean, Fox News, Feels

  "The Newest Left-wing Lie: Megyn Kelly Is a Racist Who Believes In Santa". Article by Matthew Sheffield, www.newsbusters.org. December 12, 2013.

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• I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.

  Olivia Wilde

  Hate, Eyebrows, Looks

  "Olivia Wilde: Jason Sudekis Loves My Hair When It's". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. February 7, 2013.

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• You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

  Roger Martin

  Odds, Choices, Risk

  "The Big Lie of Strategic Planning". Article by Roger Martin, hbr.org. January - February 2014.

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• Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

  Julian Assange

  Messengers, Revealing

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• I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don’t seem to want to do that as much as we used too.

  Dean Kamen

  Thinking, Dust, Risk

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• Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

  Jim Costa

  Moving, Rights, People

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• Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Good Intentions

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.605, ShandonPress

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• I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.

  Kristen Stewart

  Listening, Desire, Looks

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• New beginnings – professional, personal, or come what may – are always uncomfortable, but being open to them is the only way to grow. In the end, we are all capable of so much more than we think.

  Marissa Mayer

  New Beginnings, Thinking, May

  "Marissa Mayer Tells The Story Of Why She Became Yahoo CEO, Even Though She Was About To Have A Kid" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. March 29, 2013.

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• People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

  Joy Kogawa

  People, Suffering, Use

  Joy Kogawa (1983). “Obasan”, Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books

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• I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

  Bob Hawke

  Squat, Fence, Bottom

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• I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

  Clea DuVall

  People, Shy, Feels

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• Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage

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• If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.

  M. R. James

  Writing, Fire, Dying

  M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.406, OUP Oxford

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• I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

  Daniel Tammet

  Office, Feelings, Style

  "A genius explains". Interview with Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2005.

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• Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

  M.I.A.

  Order, Bullshit, Silence

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• I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

  Patricia Monaghan

  Experts, Students, Truth Is

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• Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.

  Erik Naggum

  Animal, People, Together

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• I was uncomfortable because I had never been that nude before. I had never shown my legs, and never shown quite that much skin. I always played frigid doctors or the plain sisters who got the guy at the end. What did I know from ladies in caves who ate only meat? And when the outfit came in, I never thought of myself that way. I mean, I always thought of myself as having my father's chest. I was very self-conscious.

  Mariette Hartley

  Father, Mean, Doctors

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