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• The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Disappointment, Frustration, Insightful

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• I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Drinking, Thinking, Quality

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• If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind.

  Arfa Karim

  Mind, Want, Remember

  "Arfa Karim Randhawa Wins MCP – Interview". arfakarim.wordpress.com. January 1, 2012.

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• The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

  Roger Moore

  People, Shy, Actors

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• The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Fear, Forever, Inferiority

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• I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Adults, Different, Shy

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• I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Talking, Shy, Enjoy

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• The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Heart, Aggressive, Bashful

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.203, Transaction Publishers

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• 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 ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Shy, Inferiority

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.26, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Real, Heart

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Mika

  Thinking, People, Shy

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• I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child, unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.

  Jean Arthur

  Children, Silence, Adults

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Acquiring Knowledge

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• 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.

  John Steinbeck

  Prayer, Magic, Suffering

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.12, Penguin

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• People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

  Diane Sawyer

  People, Shy, Television

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• Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

  Tennessee Williams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.

  Michael Bergin

  Party, Awkward, Feelings

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• 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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Kindness, Thinking, Self

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• Shyness means you are in the hallway of a greater presence. You just don't know how to take the conversation another step. It's a lovely indication.

  David Whyte

  Mean, Lovely, Steps

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

  Steve Martin

  School, People, Laughing

  "Actor-musician Steve Martin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 22, 2012.

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• A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Failure, Shy

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Retain your shyness and drop your shame.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Shame

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• Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

  Susan Cain

  Breeding, Mark, Reserves

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.25, Broadway Books

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• I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Golden, Chance

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• I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, People, Shy

  "Interview with Twilight's Kristen Stewart". Interview with Will Lawrence, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 13, 2010.

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