Quotes on the topic: Discomfort


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I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.


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've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.


I'm very comfortable with uncomfortable situations, and I think that can seem odd to people, that I like the thrill of discomfort.


After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.


Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.


I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.


I have absolutely no rituals or routines other than I work obsessively and think constantly about my work, to the dismay and discomfort of everyone I employ. And my family.


But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.


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


I have a high tolerance for discomfort.


The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.


We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.


There's more discomfort being an old soul or a person who questions a lot of things. I'm young, but I'm old.


I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.


Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.


Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.


The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.


One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.


All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.