Uncomfortable Quotes

• Do things that are uncomfortable to do. I say that because women tend to step back from things that they don't know about. And the second, most important, one is, push through the fear.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Important
  • Uncomfortable

• I think in terms of the themes that I have worked on most is establishing questions of race in the context of Latin America. This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.

  

  Bocafloja
  • Race
  • Uncomfortable
  • Theme

• Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.

  

  Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • Political
  • Revolution
  • Rich

• I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Way
  • Situation
  • Laughter

• Tin Machine had fallen on the grenade, gotten rid of the "Phil Collins-Tina Turner-1980s-Let's Dance-vibe" that he was uncomfortable with, and basically re-booted the Bowie (David Bowie) career system. All in all, it was fun, nobody died, and it was an education in diving into the deep end of the pool.

  

  Reeves Gabrels
  • Education
  • System
  • Pool

• When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I think my parents felt threatened by it. They were always happy when they were listening to Mozart, so if your parents are happy, then you're happy.

  

  William Orbit
  • Listening
  • Parent
  • Discouraged

• We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

  

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  • Appreciate
  • Uncomfortable
  • Languages

• When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.

  

  Melissa Rosenberg
  • Writing
  • Eating
  • Pushing

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

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • People
  • Feel
  • Uncomfortable

• Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Feeling
  • Tolerance
  • Uncomfortable

• I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

  

  Raymond Burr
  • Columbia
  • Francisco
  • Malibu

• Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • Enough
  • Speak
  • Conscience

• It's time for men to be held accountable when they make women feel uncomfortable or do things out of line.

  

  Logan Browning
  • Men
  • Uncomfortable
  • Accountable

• All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.

  

  Amy Neftzger
  • Memories
  • Uncomfortable
  • Roads

• 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.

  

  Steven Pinker
  • Connections
  • Uncomfortable
  • Claims

• Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery.

  

  Nell Irvin Painter
  • Intellectual
  • Passionate
  • Abolition

• 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

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• I'm glad people see some of the stories that way. I see where they're coming from, although none of the stories are specifically intended to arouse. There is a gender divide on the short story "The Girlfriend Game" - women seem to consider it "sexy" but men usually find it uncomfortable.

  

  Nick Antosca
  • People
  • Sexy
  • Girlfriend

• I was taught never to make a threat unless you are prepared to carry it out, and I am not a fan of carrying anything. Even watching other people carrying things makes me uncomfortable. Mainly because of the possibility they may ask me to help.

  

  David Thorne
  • People
  • Helping
  • Possibility

• China likes the idea of sovereign rights when it comes to organizing their politics as they see fit, and their economics. But they may grudgingly come to understand certain things differently in the area of climate or disease. China is a country fairly integrated into the world. Yet China is uncomfortable with this idea because they worry it will constrain their freedom, politically and economically, to do what they believe they need to do to maintain political stability and cohesion.

  

  Richard N. Haass
  • Country
  • Uncomfortable
  • Integrated

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

  

  Hilary Swank
  • Growth
  • Uncomfortable
  • Dealing

• If you want to live as a Christian, get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Christian
  • Uncomfortable

• One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation to the Ironside who was in 'Top Gun'?' And I said, 'I am, yes.' And she grinned and said, 'I knew it! Talent must run in your family!' And she walked away. And all of the producers and directors kind of looked at me uncertainly, and I said, 'What are you guys so uncomfortable for? That's an incredible compliment. I do look like the father of that guy, for Christ's sake!'

  

  Michael Ironside
  • Family
  • Father
  • Christ

• I’d promised myself that I’d really work on talking more, talking about uncomfortable things, because I could see from Brian how well things could work out if you did.

  

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  • Uncomfortable
  • Brian

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