Shyness Quotes Page 2

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

The first few glasses of beer were a revelation;

they flushed my veins with happiness; they washed away all cares and shyness and worries. I remember thinking to myself, If I could have two pints of beer every afternoon, life would be a great happiness.

Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.

The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus, although the eighteenth century shyness toward it had long lost all point.

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think.

It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled into something else.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line.

It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straitening shyness that assail one. It is as though the words were not only indelible but that they spread out like dye in water and color everything around them. A strange and mystic business, writing.

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.

The very best way in all the world to overcome self-consciousn ess and shyness is to get interested in other people and to think of them and, almost miraculously, your timidity will pass. Do something for other people. Practice deeds of kindness, acts of friendliness, and you'll be surprised to see what happens.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words.

I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils. Veils of reserve, shyness,fear.

They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade.

I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler.

It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line.

It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.

I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others;

the rest is either shyness or good marketing