Discomfort Quotes · Page 6

“You cannot possibly know what gives you discomfort unless you step outside your comfort zone, this where change begins.”

— JOHN TASKINSOY

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

— Richard Asher

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

— William Shakespeare

“What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in”

— Jonathan Franzen

Be comfortable in your own skin. Comfort and discomfort are contagious.

— Mark Goulston

In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.

— Uzodinma Iweala

Sometimes comfort zones are the best. Sometimes discomfort is just what the doctor ordered.

— Aesop Rock

I am constantly on the move, and if I experience foot discomfort, it makes my job really hard to do.

— Megan Hilty

“‪Am I dead? Is this heaven? No, I can't be. I'm realizing this as I process my second sensation: discomfort. I turn…

— Karen Bergreen

We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort…

— William R. Brody

Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in…

— Laurel Nakadate

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when…

— Barbara Jordan

Columbo's deliberately irritating questioning technique - 'just one more thing' - is designed to produce discomfort rather than to elicit information.

— Mark Fisher

I have long since passed that period when I felt personal discomfort at the sight of an ill-dressed or illiterate Negro. Social…

— Lorraine Hansberry

Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future.

— Hal Elrod

“Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly love. Don't bundle someone into an uncomfortable cage just because you…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— Matthew Hussey

A university shouldn't be a place of comfort. It should be a place of discomfort because you want to disabuse these kids…

— Charles Koch

Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You…

— Pema Chodron

Now I have a standard for how I make sure people do not speak to me in a way that I feel…

— Franchesca Ramsey

I have argued tirelessly, nearly endlessly, in so many books, about the need for the social, the economic reconstruction of society. The…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Dressed that way, he looked almost like any other New Yorker. It was only he nervous shifting of his eyes that hinted…

— Heidi Heilig

Emotional maturity is ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished; to endure unpleasantness, discomfort, and…

— Edward Adam Strecker

Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular…

— Ken Keyes Jr

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

— Joseph Brodsky

Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort.

— Deepak Chopra

When we're waiting, the day lets long, the time gets slow, and the discomfort gets bigger and bigger.

— Anonymous

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

— Bertrand Russell

We need to be willing to be comfortable with discomfort in order to grow.

— Michael Port

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

— Abraham Cezar

The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?

— Pema Chodron

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

— Devendra Banhart

Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.

— Fred Armisen

If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better.

— Angela Duckworth

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

— Erika Andersen

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

— Wendelin Van Draanen

“The end is near when your strength becomes the source of discomfort.”

— Manish

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

— Evan Esar

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

— Vivek Shraya

“Be comfortable within your purse,” he often said. “Extravagance will buy you discomfort.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda