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“If we desire to end our days in joy and comfort, let us lay the foundation of a comfortable death now betimes. To die well is not a thing of that light moment as some imagine: it is no easy matter. But to die well is a matter of every day. Let us daily do some good that may help us at the time of our death. Every day by repentance pull out the sting of some sin,that so when death comes, we may have nothing to do but to die. To die well is the action of the whole life.”

Ifs Wells May Ends Matter Whole Moments Helping Light Action Joy Desire Dies Easy Sin Imagine Comfort Comfortable Foundation Lays Whole Life Repentance

Author:Richard Sibbes

“You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.”

Littles Television Perspective Comfortable Neighborhood Just Live

Author:Craig Venter

“We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.”

People Feels Self Home Levels Self Esteem Comfortable Esteem

Book:Power of Self Esteem

Source: Power of Self Esteem

“How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!”

People Feels Comfortable Do The Best Best Work Ballgame

Author:Robert Knepper

“I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.”

Thinking Feels Writing I Can Hands Type Paper Comfortable Computer Stones Crosses Fingers Pens Old Man Pencils Ink Typewriters Manuals Keyboards Gripping Tablets

Author:Paul Auster

“Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is far more comfortable giving a journalist "Tom Waits" the character, whose conversation is really a series of strange tales, learned or ad-libbed.”

Giving Self Character Waiting Strange Conversation Speech Comfortable Series Wit Tales Journalist Ads Toms Anecdotes Self Deprecating

Author:Sylvie Simmons

“If someone else was in the room, I wouldn't feel comfortable doing what I wanted to do. I would try to play something that the other person or people would love or would like, at least. Nothing was true because I was not playing what I wanted, and they were not listening to anything that was coming from anywhere true.”

People Ifs Feels Trying Persons Play Wanted Rooms Listening Comfortable

Author:Juana Molina

“I don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and... I just need to be comfortable.”

Ifs Knows Needs Ends Comfortable Shoes Costumes

Author:Grimes

“I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.”

Made Voice Records Comfortable Singing Who I Am Solo Learning Experience

Author:Roddy Woomble

“I'm lucky that people feel comfortable sharing things with me.”

People Feels Lucky Comfortable Sharing Things

Author:Alison Rosen

“I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and taking art out of galleries. Now street art is in the gallery, and it's all made up into a nice, packaged concept.”

Thinking Art Made Nice Streets Comfortable Art Is Concepts Genre Gallery Street Art

Author:M.I.A.

“Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit annoying. It's supposed to be diverse and interesting and conceptual and have weird concepts in a comfortable place.”

People Art Bits Interesting Creativity Months Comfortable Art Is Concepts Supposed To Be Annoying Diverse Darling

Author:M.I.A.

“I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded.”

Mean Stills Social Situation Share Comfortable Guarded Introverted Gregarious

Author:Neil Peart

“People tell me I'm a comedian, but I don't approach acting from that perspective. I do know that everything in life has to do with your timing and perception. You have to be comfortable with the rhythm that you're in. You can't just jump into a fast rhythm if yours is slow. You might have to pick up the pace but in your own particular way. It has to do with personality, too.”

People Ifs Knows Way Might Acting Particular Perspective Personality Comfortable Perception Approach Picks Rhythm Comedian Pace Timing

Author:Mike Tyson

“The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable. It's never been about the blockbusters and making a huge tonne of money. It's always been about wanting to do projects about the things that I think are important to be out there.”

Thinking Feels Kind Important Film Huge Comfortable Projects Independent Independent Film Blockbuster

Author:Mia Wasikowska

“If someone's carrying a gun or a knife it's not a nice thing. They aren't going to feel that comfortable with it. It's a scary position to put yourself in. You don't choose to do that unless you feel there's absolutely no other option and you're forced to carry a weapon in order to protect yourself.”

Ifs Feels Order Nice Position Protect Comfortable Weapons Gun Scary Knives Nice Things Protect Yourself

Author:Scarlett Alice Johnson

“Once you find out what makes you comfortable and happy, it's a lot easier to be confident.So, be yourself!”

Easier Comfortable Being Yourself Be Confident

Author:Meaghan Martin

“I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.”

Thinking Today Comfortable Majors Reckoning Confessing

Author:Kiese Laymon

“There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.”

Ifs Littles Long Facts Grew Comfortable Grew Up Bored Ponds

Author:Carolyn Hax

“Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.”

Seems Comfortable Familiar Laziness Domain Activate

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“Intuitively we all like to seek the things that are comfortable rather than uncomfortable. But I do think there is a way of saying that if I believe in justice and I believe that justice is a constant struggle, and if I want to create justice, then I have to get comfortable with struggle.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Believe I Believe Justice Struggle Comfortable Constant I Believe In Uncomfortable Constant Struggle

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.”

Sometimes Comfortable Resistance Hostility

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“I'm not comfortable, for myself and for others. And yet, one has these people whom you trust, have faith in, whom you believe see what you see, and then you come up against a moment where you feel suddenly tossed out. So I was really interested in those moments.”

People Feels Believe Moments Comfortable Come Up Have Faith

Author:Claudia Rankine

“We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the first step toward cliché and stereotype, as they're comforting devices. They reduce the confusing world to the already familiar. We're always smoothing out the bumps of actual living to turn it into narratable life.”

World Firsts Order Turns Language Steps Comfortable Familiar Devices Scare First Steps Stereotype Confusing Comforting Bumps

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“So much of our cultural representation of what an investigative journalist looks like, in movies and pop culture, is about this really testosterone-filled dude screaming, "Give me what you got!" I didn't see myself as someone who would be good at or comfortable with that.”

Giving Looks Would Be Culture Comfortable Give Me Filled Pops Be Good Journalist Representation Pop Culture Testosterone

Author:Sarah Stillman

“It is rarely comfortable to talk about climate change. Bringing something difficult up, it feels like somehow by mentioning this I'm kind of causing it, I'm hurting these people. But you're not hurting these people; climate change is hurting these people. You're telling them they're being hurt.”

People Feels Kind Difficult Hurt Comfortable Climate Climate Change Being Hurt

Author:Margaret D. Klein

“If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous school and his relationship with a prostitute. I doubt very much it will be evaluated on its merits as literature. If Bulgarian were the book's only language, that would be painful and limiting to me as a writer. Since my book also exists in English - where it isn't scandalous at all - I feel comfortable with the possibility of scandal.”

Ifs Feels Book Would Be School Literature Language Attention Novel Doubt Teacher Possibility Comfortable Painful Merit Scandal Scandalous Bulgaria Bulgarians

Author:Garth Greenwell

“People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."”

People Should Able Guy Turns Records Television Comfortable Hot This Guy Turn-on Mtv

Author:David Bowie

“I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.”

Thinking Feels Taken Comfortable Skins Tables Dancing Reverse Living My Life Relaxed Dancing On Tables

Author:Karen Elson

“When I was trying to create this so-called Lav Diaz verité, it just happened. At some point, I became very comfortable with the one frame, with the single take. It just happened. I didn't plan it. I was looking for my own aesthetic, my own perspective, my own voice, and it happened.”

Trying Voice My Own Plans Happened Perspective Comfortable Aesthetic

Author:Lav Diaz

“I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.”

Feels Writing Book Hard Felt Easy Comfortable Book Writing

Author:Zephyr Teachout

“A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.”

Wells Actors Felt Teaching Fronts Calling Comfortable Crowds Combination

Author:Zephyr Teachout

“I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I feel an incredible longing to belong. That is really a strong feeling from my childhood - a desire to be part of a group.”

Feels Feelings Together Desire Strong Groups Childhood Position Comfortable Longing Incredibles Outsiders Strong Feeling

Author:Lily King

“Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?”

People Should Comfortable Smoke Chairs Cigar

Author:Benjamin Carson

“People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.”

People Kind Seems Type Comfortable Factories Cheesecake

Author:Fred D'Aguiar

“Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels are about. Sometimes you feel like certain novelists are like that.”

Thinking Feels Writing Kind Different Sometimes Certain Novel Comfortable Novelists Different Kinds Essays Writing Essays

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to be different, but they're really not. And that's a different kind of mindset. I don't know why it is, but I just feel like I really want to escape myself as much as I can - myself as the artist, or as the writer, or as the thinker - with each new project, because one, it's just boredom, but also, I guess I just feel most comfortable starting a new book if I just feel a little in the dark about it.”

“I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Doe I Can Games Cutting Sadness Comfortable Majors Performances Prize Speakers Committees Ankles Larger Than Life Wry

Author:Randall Mann

“What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.”

Want Reader Comfortable What You Want Lenses Erase Cognitive Dissonance Cognitive Dissonance

Author:Chris Abani

“I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.”

Wanted Song Voice Comfortable

Author:Glenn Frey

“The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.”

Thinking Feels Long Character Nice Comfortable Long Time Nice Things Thinking Less

Author:Gary Cole

“{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.”

Ifs Reason Wanted Games Situation Comfortable Losing Uncomfortable Drains Uncomfortable Situations

Author:Conor McGregor

“Of course I love when people are quiet, but I also love when people are comfortable. I love when people emote. The flip side of having a totally silent audience is that they're less likely to react to you in the space, and I think that's one of the great things about performing live: you get energy from the audience, and you give energy back to them. There's interaction.”

People Thinking Giving Courses Energy Sides Space Audience Quiet Comfortable Silent Great Things Performing Interaction Flip Performing Live Emote

Author:Missy Mazzoli

“Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was also a reason for late-term abortions that was tough. I did a book on dwarfs and know a lot of them, and that was a shock. That's a decision I could not feel comfortable with.”

Knows Feels Book Reason Found Term Decision Comfortable Late Tough Abortion Shock Severe Dwarfs Deformity

Author:John H Richardson

“in general, I feel most comfortable between known quantities.”

Feels Known Comfortable Quantity

Author:Pam Houston

“Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.”

Way Feels Important Shows Seems Comfortable Who I Am Show Me Pennsylvania Laos

Author:Pam Houston

“It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.”

Easy Comfortable Machines Stress

Author:Peter Jacobson

“Now that I am an adult, I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I'm a lot more settled down and I learnt to just be comfortable with where I'm at, rather than always wanting to be somewhere ahead of where I am.”

My Own Comfortable Adults Skins Down And

Author:Brooke Fraser

“I want them [people] to feel open and comfortable to share the messy, dirty, shameful parts of themselves. Those are the parts I wanna see. And that eating disorders aren't just about "being thin."”

People Want Feels Share Comfortable Eating Dirty Disorder Messy Shameful Eating Disorder

Author:Jessie Kahnweiler

“Who doesn't want to be comfortable all day long?”

Want Long Comfortable

Author:Ashley Graham

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