Discomfort Quotes · Page 12

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

— Brandon Sanderson

“Let your discomfort lead you into inventions”

— Sunday Adelaja

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

— Peter McWilliams

Out of discomfort comes greatness

— Cindy Gallop

I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.

— Brett Gelman

Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

— Susan Maushart

Discomfort isn't grounds for discrimination. We have a big country with a lot of different kinds of people in it.

— Sarah McBride

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

— Jonathan Tropper

“Sometimes, discomfort means we are on the verge of a major turning point or revelation.”

— Laurie E. Smith

“the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida”

— Jonathan Franzen

“It seems to me there is always pain—or at least discomfort—involved in getting really good at something.”

— Erika Andersen

“Anyone who has grown mentally, physically, or spiritually knows that growth is not found in comfort.”

— Abraham Cezar

When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not…

— Peter McWilliams

I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view…

— Ian Anderson

I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense…

— Rachel Keller

I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just…

— Karen O

How much truth can we bear? Our tolerance for carrying the truth is not very high. I mean, the slightest discomfort about…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that…

— Michael Eric Dyson

It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying…

— Saint Augustine

I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about…

— Hari Kondabolu

The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting,…

— Donald Murray

We live in a very mollycoddled society where the slightest bit of discomfort is seen as wrong, but that discomfort is there…

— Matthew Hussey

At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message…

— Esther Perel

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good…

— Brené Brown

For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also…

— Giles Duley

With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle:…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort…

— Laurel Nakadate

“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness…

— Anne Lamott

As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality…

— Pema Chodron

It was so fascinating to be a part of this, because as the women took on these central roles that had all…

— Olivia Wilde

Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Generally speaking, we regard discomfort in any form as bad news. But for practitioners or spiritual warriors-people who have a certain hunger…

— Pema Chödrön

As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise…

— Ronald Goldman

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

— Marty Neumeier

“The narrow edge between comfort and discomfort is to a yogi what a grain of sand is to an oyster.”

— Darren Main

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

— Vivek Shraya

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

— Kate Mulgrew

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

— William Blum

“[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.”

— Joseph Brodsky

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

— William Shakespeare