“I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music -- particularly American music -- that I heard a lot of when I was a teenager," "I think at a certain point it dawned on me that myself playing this music wasn't very convincing. It was more convincing when we played music that came from our own stock of tradition. ... I certainly feel a lot more comfortable playing so-called Celtic music.” ThinkingFeelsPlayWholeUsedCertainHeardComfortableTraditionTeenagerRangeConvincingCelticPopular MusicAmerican MusicCeltic Music Author:John Renbourn
“Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can't really learn about computers without being taught, so it's more difficult for them to feel comfortable with a computer. Deep down, I think they're afraid of learning about computers.” ThinkingFeelsHas BeensDifficultTaughtComfortableComputerAdultsDeep DownBrainwashed Author:Seymour Papert
“I have been asked to lend people money - I now only ever give whatever amount is comfortable without thinking it will come back, otherwise when you see that person wearing a new coat or going on holiday you think but yes, where is my money?” PeopleThinkingGivingPersonsHas BeensAmountComfortableHolidayCoatsGoing On Holiday Author:Anne Robinson
“I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. And I think a lot of people get to that point - specifically, sort of getting comfortable looking out for yourself and taking care of yourself and defining yourself based on healthier criteria, and not criteria that's established by complete strangers that you've never met.” PeopleThinkingCareFiguresMetsComfortableAspectStrangerDefiningCriteriaTake Care Of YourselfLook At YourselfProfessional LifePublic FiguresDefine Yourself Author:Moby
“A lot of people are not comfortable being apart from the group, from the whole herd, and listening to the inner voice. They just follow what the crowd does and wear what the crowd wears and think what the crowd thinks. They get very caught up in doing what the world says is the cool thing to do and living the way the rest of the world lives. Once we make a decision to break away from that and not be part of the herd anymore - by going inside and finding our own voice - then life just becomes magical.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayDoeWholeVoiceDecisionBreakGroupsListeningComfortableFindingsCaughtCrowdsThings To DoCaught UpHerdsInner VoiceCool ThingsWorld Life Author:Echo Bodine
“Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced with one stranger. This always seems like a bit of a failing on my part, as a human. I think that's also why I put myself situations where I'm forced to engage in other ways.” ThinkingWayHumansBigsSeemsBitsSituationAudienceFailingFrontsComfortableStranger Author:Miranda July
“Overall, everyone has been respectful of my boundaries and my morals as a Christian and an artist. Sometimes I'll go to photo shoots, and they'll pull out some stuff that I'm not comfortable wearing, and I just tell them 'no'. I'm very glad God made me a person who's not afraid to say what I think. I can just go, 'No, I'm not going to wear that!'” ThinkingPersonsHas BeensMadeI CanSometimesChristianArtistStuffMoralComfortableGladBoundariesNot AfraidRespectfulPhoto Shoots Author:Stacie Orrico
“I think the best way to be an activist is to live your life well and be honest. It means being out. If you are not comfortable marching, you can make a big difference just by working side by side with someone who actually knows you're gay and a fine human being.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayHumansWellsMeanBigsSidesDifferencesHuman BeingsHonestFineGayComfortableBest WayBeing HonestActivistLive Your Life Author:Melissa Etheridge
“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.” ThinkingFeelsWritingI CanHandsTypePaperComfortableComputerStonesCrossesFingersPensOld ManPencilsInkTypewritersManualsKeyboardsGrippingTablets Author:Paul Auster
“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.” ThinkingArtMadeNiceStreetsComfortableArt IsConceptsGenreGalleryStreet Art Author:M.I.A.
“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.” ThinkingFeelsKindImportantFilmHugeComfortableProjectsIndependentIndependent FilmBlockbuster Author:Mia Wasikowska
“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.” ThinkingTodayComfortableMajorsReckoningConfessing Author:Kiese Laymon
“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.” IfsThinkingWayWantBelieveI BelieveJusticeStruggleComfortableConstantI Believe InUncomfortableConstant Struggle Author:Bryan Stevenson
“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.” ThinkingFeelsTakenComfortableSkinsTablesDancingReverseLiving My LifeRelaxedDancing On Tables Author:Karen Elson
“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.” ThinkingFeelsWritingKindDifferentSometimesCertainNovelComfortableNovelistsDifferent KindsEssaysWriting Essays Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“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.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayDoeI CanGamesCuttingSadnessComfortableMajorsPerformancesPrizeSpeakersCommitteesAnklesLarger Than LifeWry Author:Randall Mann
“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.” ThinkingFeelsLongCharacterNiceComfortableLong TimeNice ThingsThinking Less Author:Gary Cole
“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.” PeopleThinkingGivingCoursesEnergySidesSpaceAudienceQuietComfortableSilentGreat ThingsPerformingInteractionFlipPerforming LiveEmote Author:Missy Mazzoli
“You don't have to fit into a particular box. You fit into a box that you're comfortable in, and you'll attract people with like minds. It took me a while to figure this out, but there are many ideals. You have to figure right what's best for you and that will radiate out of you. I think a certain amount of letting go and being brave and not being afraid to make mistakes to get there.” PeopleThinkingMindCertainMistakeFiguresParticularAmountFitLetting GoComfortableIdealsBraveBoxesMaking MistakesBeing Afraid Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“Most of the musicians that I'm playing with now have jazz backgrounds, so they're comfortable with improvisation. And they all know to make eye contact with me, and I'll give them some kind of sign when I think that the song's ending. Or maybe I don't even have to, because they all sort of feel it at the same time.” ThinkingKnowsGivingFeelsKindEyeSongComfortableMusicianJazzBackgroundsContactImprovisationEye Contact Author:Larkin Grimm
“As you feel increasingly comfortable around your friends, I think it's more than fine to share the basic details of your heroin addiction with them. If they seem receptive, you can feel free to talk about it in further detail; if they seem judgmental or uncomfortable, you can move on to other topics.” IfsThinkingFeelsSeemsMovingShareFineComfortableAddictionDetailsUncomfortableTopicsHeroinJudgmentalReceptiveHeroin Addiction Author:Mallory Ortberg
“I think it's almost a unique control that artists can have now more than they ever did, I think if you don't be proactive about how you want your music to be visually represented, I think other people will do it for you - so how comfortable are you with people putting their own two cents on it?” PeopleIfsThinkingWantTwoArtistComfortableUniqueCentsProactiveTwo Cents Author:Lizzy Plapinger
“I've always enjoyed doing a huge variety of roles, which I think helps, instead of settling for the things I might be most comfortable with.” ThinkingHelpingMightRolesHugeComfortableVarietyEnjoyedSettling Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“I've been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you're comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone's going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.” ThinkingGivingEndsSchoolOpportunityActingFocusTalentComfortableWho You AreThe End Of The Day Author:Viola Davis
“I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.” ThinkingKnowsSelfEasyTakenPoetComfortableSwimmingPoolRoutesProtectiveSwimming Pool Author:Sam Hamill
“I think when you're reaching outside of something you're comfortable doing, you're just heading towards a light. I don't think you stop to justify it.” ThinkingLightComfortableReachingJustifyReach OutHeadingsDoing You Author:Sally Field
“Yeah, for me there are other challenges that aren't musical too. Like you just don't have as many people to feed off of energy wise, you are loading in and out and you are driving yourself more. Most of the challenges that count are the musical ones. I don't know why people come out to the shows, but I never think that it is to hear me play the guitar and sing. I think it must be in the writing and the presentation, which are the areas that I feel most comfortable.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsWritingPlayShowsEnergyChallengesWiseLike YouComfortableAreasYeahGuitarMusicalDrivingPresentation Author:Stephen Kellogg
“I think I am most comfortable when I am on stage. I feel free, like I can be or do anything and it feels like home.” ThinkingFeelsI CanHomeStageComfortable Author:Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer
“I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.” IfsThinkingFeelingsTermYouthCallingConflictComfortableDiscoverySuspenseTrue NatureThrillersBeing Afraid Author:Christopher Rice
“I can't become naked for everybody. It's never going to be possible for the person to write the whole story completely, so I find bits of myself, bits of what I think in some articles. And I don't give lip service to journalists. I never make them feel comfortable. I say, "It's your job to make the story."” ThinkingGivingFeelsWritingPersonsI CanWholeStoriesJobsBitsComfortableLipsNakedJournalistArticlesLip Service Author:Rei Kawakubo
“I call myself good crazy because I am a crazy normal. But who is normal really? Are you normal? Maybe you are, but I don't think a lot of us are normal. I think a lot of us are scared to say that we are a little crazy. I'm a little crazy that is just the way it is. I look in the mirror now and I like who is looking back at me. I am comfortable in my skin for the first time in my life. I have let a wall down.” ThinkingWayFirstsLooksLittlesCrazyWallNormalComfortableFirst TimeSkinsMirrorsScaredLooking Back Author:Shane Bunting
“When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?"” PeopleThinkingNeedsMindHouseSpaceWalksFlowerComfortableSettingSettingsPeacefulEnlightenedCandleFurnitureLightingAlways ThinkingVasesDecoratingRestful Author:Evangeline Lilly
“I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day. I was adopted by my foster parents, so I was comfortable with them. I wasn't in this alien place.” ThinkingAgeThreeParentComfortableWake UpAliensAdoptedFoster Parent Author:Angel Olsen
“I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's what you should do as an artist. Why be comfortable?” ThinkingWantShouldArtistSoundComfortableInspiredEvolveBobDylanUnwritten Author:Lykke Li
“In the military it was camouflage for the desert or the winter. And now it's the duck hunting colors - I think it's "real tree." It's comfortable. It's stuff that's made out of comfortable material, OK, and I'm comfortable in it.” ThinkingMadeRealStuffTreeMilitaryColorMaterialsComfortableWinterDesertHuntingDucksCamouflageDuck Hunting Author:Si Robertson
“People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.” PeopleThinkingMeanDifferentComfortable Author:Jessica Valenti
“You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBehindsCarComfortableWheels Author:Robert Barry
“I think there are probably a lot of actors like me who I think probably struggle to feel comfortable in their own lives, and acting in some ways provides a safe context for them to live out emotions that they possibly repress or live out experiences that they are not afforded by virtue of circumstance.” ThinkingWayFeelsActorsActingEmotionStruggleVirtueCircumstancesSafeComfortableLike Me Author:Jesse Eisenberg
“I think, for me, the main thing is feeling comfortable.” ThinkingFeelingsComfortable Author:Sophie Cookson
“I think the desire to reject elites, to retreat within more comfortable geographic and personal borders and to lash out at political correctness is not a phenomenon unique to Britain or the US.” ThinkingPoliticalDesireComfortableUniqueBordersBritainRejectsPhenomenonElitesRetreatPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessLashes Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza
“I'm really excited to share the movie [Swiss Army Man] with people, so I'm glad that people are seeing it. And I want them to, because I think it's a really fun movie to experience sitting next to people. It makes it funnier. It makes it more comfortable. It makes it sweeter.” PeopleThinkingMenWantNextFunSeeingShareComfortableSittingArmyExcitedGladSwissFun Movie Author:Paul Dano
“I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.” ThinkingFeelsAbleHonestComfortableBeing Honest Author:June Jordan
“I wanna go in the studio and just go back to the same amps and stuff I'm so comfortable with the sound of. Which I think is important to stay original.” ThinkingImportantStuffSoundComfortableOriginalsStudios Author:John Petrucci
“A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by the time I graduated from high school, things had changed.” ThinkingSchoolFeltGenerationsChangedCollegeComfortableHigh SchoolBackgroundsPrinceton Author:Samuel Alito
“I know that people look at my life and ask, "How can I achieve some of those things?" So, I suppose in that sense, yes, I'm a role model. But I try to think of myself more as a mentor, as somebody who I hope young people feel comfortable approaching or writing to.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsWritingTryingLooksYoungAsksRolesAchieveComfortableModelsRole ModelsMentor Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I think, honestly, that ego makes you most vulnerable. When you are in humility you are much more comfortable, open and okay with BEING vulnerable, whereas the ego is the protecter, and even though you think you're protecting, I think you are more vulnerable if you're in ego.” IfsThinkingHumilityEgoComfortableOkayHonestlyVulnerable Author:Mike Ness
“I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.” ThinkingDarkInfluenceComfortableAmerican HistoryDark Places Author:James Ellroy
“I think the fact that you don't have to go to a class and embarrass yourself if you're not comfortable with your body.” IfsThinkingFactsBodyClassComfortableYour Body Author:Carmen Electra
“When you do a computerized poll, where people are comfortable, Donald Trump vote goes up very dramatically. And I think people don't realize the effort by the elite media, the totally dishonest effort to submerge him, has had an effect.” PeopleThinkingRealizingEffortEffectsMediaTrumpComfortableVoteElitesPolls Author:Newt Gingrich
“The whole entire album is about Cry Baby, you know, being super insecure and kind of like going through her emotions until she finally realizes that she's comfortable with how crazy and insane she is and I think that I've made the exact same kind of progression , and the growth...and I don't know, like I feel like I've definitely grown into who I am and, like, I think Cry Baby is just me.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsKindMadeWholeGrowthRealizingEmotionCrazyCryBabyComfortableAlbumsWho I AmInsaneInsecureProgressionCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez