“We have an opportunity to improve productivity and cut costs while growing our way to a better and a more comfortable operating environment. I don't think anyone feels comfortable about bumping around where we are today.” ThinkingWayFeelsTodayOpportunityEnvironmentCuttingGrowingComfortCostComfortableProductivity Author:Scott McNealy
“If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, youre going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.” PeopleIfsGivingTryingLooksHardHelpingOpportunityDifficultComfortProfessionFuneralHelping PeopleDifficult Times Author:Steve Southerland
“Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings.” PeopleHumansValuesOpportunityCommunityHuman BeingsQualityRolesCitizensComfortMembersAddictionConsumersMentalityConvenienceQuality Of LifeReconnecting Author:Tim DeChristopher
“When you have to worry about paying the rent, you're never bored. You're just happy to have that job. But once you don't have to worry and reach the point where it's no longer about the money, you're able to look at other opportunities outside of your comfort zone.” LooksAbleJobsOpportunityWorryComfortBoredZoneComfort Zone Author:Martin Short
“If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.” IfsWorldCultureOpportunityGenerationsInformationThis WorldComfortSucceedStandardsResourcesFocusedEndlessPrivacyLongevityInheritanceNavigate Author:Marilynne Robinson
“The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.” MenWellsSelfHelpingCareJobsFallOpportunityPracticeWorrySacrificeComfortWeakRaisesMedicinePerpetualHeartedUsefulnessSelf SacrificeAnnoyanceRaise UpPractice Of Medicine Author:William Osler
“But there are so many ways to be needy. There are many who mourn and find no comfort. Many are lonely and find no love. Some feel unneeded and find no opportunities to share with others. Anyone who has an unmet need is needy. We are all needy! And those who have something they can share are rich. We are all rich! All of us can share something that may lift a burden or help in some silent struggle.” WayNeedsFeelsMayHelpingOpportunityStruggleRichShareComfortLonelySilentBurdenLiftsMournNeedyNo LoveUnmet Needs Author:Mary Edmunds
“There is a privilege in American society to being male and being white, and I think it's hard for white males to understand that privilege, because we've never experienced the opposite. When I sought out mentors to try to move forward, there were white males in virtually every position from which I was seeking mentorship. There was a natural simpatico or natural comfort. And so if you believe that's true, and I believe it's true, then we have to change that. We have to try to equalize opportunity and privilege.” ThinkingTryingBelieveMovingOpportunityI BelieveNaturalComfortMoving ForwardMentorIf You Believe Author:John Landgraf
“I know my idea of beauty isn't what most people's is, and the fact that I'm getting the opportunity to show my beauty and work with incredible photographers that actually take me out of my comfort zone and allow me to see myself through their work in a different way - it's a real honor.” DifferentRealOpportunityHonorComfortPhotographerIncrediblesZoneComfort Zone Author:Kelly Osbourne
“"Dancing with the Stars" is a great way to take Erika Jayne into more people's homes so she can have a good time and show them what she's all about. It's also a great opportunity for me to step out of my comfort zone to perform and learn something new every week.” HomeOpportunityWeekComfortDancingGood TimesZoneSomething NewComfort ZoneHaving A Good TimeGreat Opportunity Author:Erika Jayne
“If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.” TryingDifferentOpportunityComfortZoneComfort Zone Author:Chris Hardwick
“Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace.” MenLifeMindJoySpiritTurnsOpportunityVisionComfortBlessingMen And WomenIncreaseGods WillLiftsMuscles Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.” HandsCoursesOpportunitySocialLevelsBrainPathSecurityComfortTasteBehaviorAmbitionUniqueEmpathyConstitutionCuriosityPatternsAbstractSeatsGenesThirstTemperamentNoveltyClicksAptitudeLeversWiring Author:Steven Pinker
“Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it” MaySometimesTodayPastOpportunityToo MuchTomorrowComfortLongingUnityOur ThoughtsDaydreamingLive In The Present Author:Thomas S. Monson
“This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.” PeopleKnowsWorldWellsMayRealitySeemsLyingOpportunityGivenCan DoChanceSimpleComfortTruth IsCrueltyChanging The WorldTelling The TruthFalsehoodDefeatedArmament Author:Mira Grant
“Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?” IfsGivingTryingFirstsOpportunityFearProcessLevelsMissingComfortProsperityScaryWhat IfHarvest Book:Fields of Gold Source: Fields of Gold
“Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!” IdeasActionOpportunityNamesGrowthComfortDiedSelf ConfidenceComfort ZoneDiscomfort Author:T. Harv Eker
“Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life.” PeopleGivingFactsFacesOpportunityGrowsChallengesGreaterGreatnessProduceBirthComfortDifficultyAdversityEaseFacts Of Life Author:Daisaku Ikeda