Shyness Quotes - Page 5

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

  Muriel Box

  Dance, Fear, Mind

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• When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.

  Lynn Johnston

  Photography, Shields, Cameras

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• I am very shy - really shy - I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don't like going to a party by myself.

  Nicole Kidman

  Party, Kids, Shy

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• I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.

  Agnes Varda

  War, Men, Streets Of Paris

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• It is only through timidity that states are lost.

  Voltaire

  Lost, States, Timidity

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• The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not afraid or that, if someone hits you, you will hit him back. But we aren't talking about that street-fighter level of fearlessness. Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Real, Heart, Mean

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• I've often wondered about the shyness of some of us in the West about standing for these ideals that have done so much to ease the plight of man and the hardships of our imperfect world. Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible, but probable.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Age, Done

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Generosity, Kind, Wealthy

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• If you're playing someone who's impeded by fear, or shyness, or has whatever dysfunction your character might have, you have to achieve the dysfunction first, imaginatively, in order to play someone who is trying to negotiate their way out of it.

  Colin Firth

  Character, Dysfunction, Order

  "Colin Firth and Tom Hooper interview: The King's Speech, Rocky IV and more". Interview with Michael Leader, www.denofgeek.com. Jan 6, 2011.

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• Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

  Andre Dubus

  Sports, School, Self

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

  Arthur Symons

  Travel, Secret, Stranger

  "Cities of Italy".

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• I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

  Bill Wyman

  Shadow, Shy, Adulation

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• Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.

  Jonathan Cain

  Jobs, Party, Thinking

  "Susan Cain: 'Society has a cultural bias towards extroverts'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.

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• It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Speech, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  George Mackay Brown

  Beer, Thinking, Two

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• Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

  Henry Taylor

  Betrayal, Men, Secret

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.131

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• Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance. It's always been about trying to get to know people. Albeit, it's a bit of a contradiction because you can't really get to know people when they're 10 feet away and there's a big mass of them.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Distance, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have seldom been described as shy.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Shy

  Interview with Jennifer Levitsky, www.bookreporter.com. April 28, 1998.

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• INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent’s death, or abuse. They’re more likely than their peers to react to these events with depression, anxiety, and shyness. Indeed, about a quarter of Kagan’s high-reactive kids suffer from some degree of the condition known as “social anxiety disorder,” a chronic and disabling form of shyness.

  Susan Cain

  Kids, Anxiety Disorder, Parent

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• 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.

  Felix Klein

  Teacher, Science, Long

  Felix Klein (2016). “Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint: Volume I: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis”, p.166, Springer

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• I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

  Chris Evert

  Girl, Athlete, Giving

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• What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Strong, Heart, School

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.181

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• Eye contact is a method utilised by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Many women find it difficult to look a man directly in the eyes, not because of shyness, but because a woman's eyes are not located in her chest.

  Rita Rudner

  Eye, Men, Looks

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• But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.

  John Steinbeck

  Boys, People, Rejection

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

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• I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2011.

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