Uncomfortable Quotes

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.

I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering…but damn it, you will never be bored.

People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.

I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

My one fear is failure and that's one fear I have to face all the time. Yes, it's uncomfortable to be scared but I'm finally comfortable being uncomfortable.

Women do a lot of uncomfortable things for men - and I appreciate it all. I appreciate high heels. I appreciate thongs.

It's a little uncomfortable doing love scenes in armor, but, you know, when the heat's on, the heat's on.

I usually kissed my clients if they wanted to kiss. I thought it was just way too weird to say "no kissing allowed," That to me was uncomfortable.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

I have felt uncomfortable having people say, "You're my idol," because I want them to idolize God. I want them to idolize somebody that's done a lot.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

You have to be willing to stop and fix. Deep practice requires a willingness to do what many of us find uncomfortable: to admit to our errors, and focus on them.

I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

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

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

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

My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.

Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.

Training, a lot of the time, is just uncomfortable. But discipline is all about doing the thing that's uncomfortable.

There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.

Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

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

Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.

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.

Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.

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

A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.

I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.

You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to the lyrics; I wanted to squirm.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

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'.

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you'll project: 'I look like a fool.'

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.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable.

With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.

I cant stand those food cult people who bring their own food into the house. All those little thermoses and paper bags-it makes the other guests uncomfortable.

Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.