Quotes About Discomfort

Awkwardly standing there, as your friend is talking to someone you don't know.

I hate it when other people's hair tickles me.

the mustard on the roof of my mouth gave me the feeling that someone was removing my nasal hair with a blowtorch.

Talking to my mother was about as much fun as chewing a ball of tinfoil with a mouthful of fillings.

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

We chatted for some moments, and Janet joined us, and it was not until some minutes later that I became aware of someone hating me. It is one of those odd but unmistakable sensations one experiences Sometimes on buses or at private dinners, and I looked across the table to observe a young cleric whom I had never seen before regarding me with honest hostility.

Retra recoiled from his dangling nakedness...

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

I was always wondering why the first ten minutes of eating fast food is heavenly and then after those ten minutes you start feeling like s**t?

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

If you naturally feel uncomfortable and awkward while trying something new out of your comfort zone, that may be taken as a positive development towards growth.

I don't know, he seems kind of hairy and slobbery to me.

Ideas can come anytime, anywhere, while I am making this gazpacho or going to the bathroom. I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

I've never really had a studio. A studio makes you lazy and comfortable, and you repeat yourself.

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.

One of the mistakes we make as parents and as leaders is this: we do everything within our power to create emotional and relational and spiritual biospheres. We avoid conflict. We mitigate risk. We minimize discomfort. We sidestep sacrifice. Then we wonder why people grow to a certain stature and stop. We wonder why leaders fall.

because I don't want him to know but because I don't want Alexander to know. Perhaps part of the reason for my discomfort lies there; I don't like to see a fiercely strong and independent man like Boyd acting as a mouthpiece for a snake like

If you are unable to trade without the slightest bit of emotional discomfort (specifically, fear), then you have not learned how to accept the risks inherent in trading. This is a big problem, because to whatever degree you haven't accepted the risk, is the same degree to which you will avoid the risk. Trying to avoid something that is unavoidable will have disastrous effects on your ability to trade successfully.

The attendant looked at me with the expression of one who has just voided his diarrhetic soul into the pre-distressed pants which he had somehow failed to raise above the level of his thighs.

When faced with a challenging or difficult situation, the best leaders most often respond with courage; less mature leaders, or nonleaders often choose another path-a path with less risk, less conflict, and less personal discomfort.