To get to that next level, you gotta learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable.
The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.
The more uncomfortable I feel, that's where I know the magic is.
Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable.
In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well. . . . Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.
As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high
He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they're somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets.
Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.
If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we're not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone.
I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
You watch the interview afterwards, and they didn't really say much, but it's interesting, funny, and engaging. Whereas I sit there and look a little bit too serious, and as soon as that happens then you're uncomfortable and you don't want to watch.
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.
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.
I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even 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.
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!
You see so many of these empowering songs where a woman saying, you know, I'm going to go out, I'm going to wear high heels, you know, short skirt or whatever. But the high heels are quite uncomfortable, and so how good about yourself are you really feeling walking out in high heels?
I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before ‘Mulholland Dr. ’ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking people out. She told me I was a brilliant actor but the feedback was that I made people feel uncomfortable because I was so nervous and intense. I just sat there and blubbed. My mum was staying in LA at the time and I went to her and said: ‘I just can’t do this. I’m not cut out for it. ’ She just said: ‘Don’t believe a word people say about you. Forget them. ’
For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing. How the comedy ever even started in my life was that moments got uncomfortable and I felt uncertain of what the outcome was going to be, so I found a way to deflect what I was feeling, or what everyone else was feeling, by creating laughter.
I go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do the same thing, but the other way around.