Quotes About Progress

When it comes to race, uncomfortable is best. How can we learn if we always feel good about where we are? The best checks and balances require that we re-evaluate, learn and grow.

Embrace the new, no matter how uncomfortable, and make it work for you.

I don't know how to be comfortable. Comfort is uncomfortable to me so I push myself to new places.

In nearly a decade in city government, I have learned that the easiest thing to do in government is nothing. And in trying to deliver change, there will be those who are invested in the status quo who will be disrupted, or uncomfortable, or even lose out.

We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.

I like making myself uncomfortable and throwing different stuff my way and trying to find a solution for it. I think that's how you improve. Find a way to make yourself uncomfortable, get comfortable with it, and do it again.

Change is uncomfortable.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

What I firmly believe in is making positive steps in the right direction gradually and that way you move yourself into a healthy lifestyle gradually and that means you never do anything that's uncomfortable.

We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn.

I am comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!

I like a role that is challenging. That's what I look for and I'm certainly always looking to move further and maybe push myself into a place that might be temporarily uncomfortable so that I might learn something.

When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.

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

As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.

I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable.

Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.

I don't really feel comfortable unless I'm slightly uncomfortable. I don't want to play myself all the time.

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Locomotion can be uncomfortable in VR, but a number of developers have figured out how to do some subtle locomotion.

I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position.

I've always been attracted to comedy that was really close to the line and made people a little uncomfortable, because that's where progress comes from.

I spent a good amount of time with David Bowie, and I was talking about getting the band back together. He said, 'Does it make you uncomfortable?' I said 'Yeah,', and he said, 'Good. It should. You should be uncomfortable.'