Uncomfortable Situations Quotes:

You need to push yourself, put yourself in uncomfortable situations rather than stick to your comfort zone.

- Gwenno

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Uncomfortable Situations, Needs, Sticks

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

source: Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

topic: Laughter, Uncomfortable Situations, Tools

{Losing can be a great motivator] but not if it drains your confidence. One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations.

- Conor McGregor

source: Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

topic: Games, Uncomfortable Situations, Losing

Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a way to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation imaginable.

- Sandra Bullock

source: "Sandra Bullock: 'Why I hate romantic comedies'". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2010.

topic: Crazy, Uncomfortable Situations, House

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Fire, Escaping, Uncomfortable Situations, Goblin, Frying Pans

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Change, Single, Moving, Safety Zone, Willing To Try

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

- Jillian Michaels

topic: Life, Fitness, Determination, Uncomfortable Situations, Uncomfortable Feeling

Change requires leaving our comfort zones and plunging headfirst into uncomfortable situations. It's true this causes some pain and discomfort for a moment, but it's the quickest path to generating long-term fulfillment.

- Yehuda Berg

topic: Pain, Long, Leaving, Uncomfortable Situations

We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.

- Frances Moore Lappé

topic: Fear, Believe, Mean, Uncomfortable Situations

The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Acceptance, Reality, Creative, Writer's Block, Alleviate

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

- Trent Reznor

topic: Enemy, Trying, Complacency, Uncomfortable Situations

You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.

- Harry Connick, Jr.

topic: Situation, Uncomfortable, Feels, Uncomfortable Situations

I moved cities for about four months to try to provoke some inspiration and put myself in an uncomfortable situation where I would be meeting new people and have a change in locale. I look back at my career and one of my favorite records I ever made was right after I moved to Nashville.

- Matt Wertz

topic: Inspiration, Nashville, Cities, Uncomfortable Situations

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

- Brian Regan

source: Source: edition.cnn.com

topic: Laughing, Tragedy, Comedy, Uncomfortable Situations, Down The Road

Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford to be. It's really an uncomfortable situation, since I'm not an illustrator, though I do get calls from morally indefensible businesses offering me money to decorate their ambitions. It's extremely rare, almost unheard of, in fact, that I am asked to do a comic strip. Do writers get calls to pen Toyota advertisements? Do composers get asked to write chamber pieces about exercise machines?

- Chris Ware

topic: Ambition, Writing, Exercise, Toyota, Comic Strips

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

topic: Art, Impact, Skills, Uncomfortable Situations, Unsolicited Advice