Best Discomfort Quotations
244 Discomfort quotes by 215 unique authors
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Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already…
— Barack Obama
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In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.
— Bertrand Russell
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Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension,…
— Pal Benko
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When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push away…
— Duane Elgin
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EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes…
— Andrew Solomon
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Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort.
— Deepak Chopra
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The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.
— Barbara Brennan
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Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock…
— Maria Popova
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Intuitive guidance means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to take charge of…
— Caroline Myss
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Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits…
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying…
— Pema Chodron
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Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity…
— Susan Orlean
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Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort or discomfort, beauty…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will actually look like…
— Mark Rippetoe
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In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too…
— David Deida
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Discomfort is the call to set yourself free.
— Byron Katie
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Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by…
— Bessel van der Kolk
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Excellence requires discomfort.
— T.D. Jakes
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There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage…
— Michael Palin
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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
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Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you…
— Peter Ustinov
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If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along, unchecked and automatic.…
— Jen Hatmaker
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Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?
— Magda Gerber
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Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.
— Susan Maushart
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215 authors contributed a total of 244 Discomfort Quotes, led by these top contributors: