“My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don’t take.” IfsArtHelpingPurposeHumanityPositionSeriousUncomfortableGood Art Author:Chinua Achebe
“There's a difference between having a challenger whose name appears on the ballot and that`s pretty much it, versus having a challenger who forces you into uncomfortable positions, says some things about you that makes you defend yourself.” NamesForceDifferencesPositionUncomfortableVersusBallots Author:Steve Kornacki
“Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.” IfsThinkingMenWayDoeMatterMomentsChurchPositionTasteConcernedEnglandGood ThingsVery GoodSuperiorsUselessUncomfortableConsiderationUnnecessaryVentureHintsUnkindRespectabilityChurch Of England Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
“I think romance is something that you don't clock or keep track of... you don't manage it in that way. It's something that happens in a moment. Usually, it's in a period of time when you put yourself in an uncomfortable position for the sake of somebody else.” ThinkingWayMomentsHappensRomancePositionPeriodsSakeTrackManageClockUncomfortable Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.” DoneImagineWorstFashionPositionFeministUncomfortableSixtyWorst Things Author:Miuccia Prada
“Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.” IfsFeelsHumansInformationPositionUncertaintyUncomfortableShort TimeContingencyNew Information Author:Charles Hugh Smith
“An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.” PeopleWorldPoorNumbersAttentionRichGrowingPositionHigherLuckyDrawsNosesUncomfortableArroganceInhumanityDisparityCallousnessHigher GroundSplashing Author:Kalle Lasn
“I will say that I don't expect anybody to do anything that makes them feel uncomfortable. Or makes them feel like they're putting themselves in a bad position with their job.” FeelsJobsPositionUncomfortable Author:Eric Reid