Uncomfortable Quotations

People pretend to know me when they don't. I feel uncomfortable when I feel like I don't remember someone.

Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes me uncomfortable, but that's as far as it goes.

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

I'm definitely not comfortable in a Speedo! That's as uncomfortable as it gets!

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable.

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

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.

Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.

I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me.

I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

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.

You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over.

Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a way to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation imaginable.

I get very uncomfortable with people watching me.

I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

There are a lot of things that are uncomfortable and hard to do, and the longer you put off those things, the harder they get.

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my entire life telling everyone I was "OK, damn it." But when you surrender to the [uncomfortable] feelings, there are gifts on the other side: Allowing yourself to feel loneliness forces you to reach out. Letting yourself get angry gives you strength, energy and motivation.

Don't be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It's when you're uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.

Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.

They laughed at Edison and Einstein, but somehow I still feel uncomfortable when they laugh at me.

I am comfortable in the uncomfortable.

{Losing can be a great motivator] but not if it drains your confidence. One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations.

I'm always looking for things that make me kind of uncomfortable.

Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.

I don't like being vulnerable. I feel uncomfortable in it.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

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

When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling. And that's as it should be, because in our innocence we haven't known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate.

That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.

Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves, the misfits.

I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.

Almost everyone is uncomfortable talking about money.

Don't let a friend make you feel publicly uncomfortable indefinitely just because they're probably a lesbian.

What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.

My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.

Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

Working with people is what I like to do. I don't feel intimidated. I always go in prepared. When you're not prepared, that's when you feel uncomfortable.

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Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.

Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

I don't take anything too seriously. If I do, I realize pretty quickly that's why I'm uncomfortable.

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time - but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted.

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it, it's my personality.

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.

It's weird doing red carpets; it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.

Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

I feel like I'll always feel that I have so much to learn and I don't feel uncomfortable in my skin.

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.

Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.

If you ask people (as I often do) how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.

There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them.

When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required,

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Insulate yourself... from anonymous angry people Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand Precisely measure the results that are important to you Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter Fail often Ship Lead, don't manage so much Seek out uncomfortable situations Make an impact on the people who matter to you Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else Copyedit less, invent more Give more speeches Ignore unsolicited advice

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

You've got to avoid situations that make you uncomfortable.

I like to be open with journalists and I like to be honest. I hate being disingenuous because that's really uncomfortable for me; I don't excel at doing that.

Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change,

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

The web attacks traditional ways of doing things and elites, and this is very uncomfortable for traditional businesses to deal with.

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.

You have to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. I'm always comfortable being uncomfortable. And to be comfortable being uncomfortable, I have to hone my discipline, which to me is doing what I have to do, but also doing it like I love it.

If you're a professional, you'll make it work. you can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.

Sometimes you have to be uncomfortable.

I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.

I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. Im not sure its even possible.

Uncomfortable doesn't mean bad, uncomfortable simply means you're doing something you haven't done before.

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.