Shyness Quotes - Page 6

• The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding that an obstinate nature exists in a perpetual struggle with itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Mistake, Struggle, Two

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.2, Jester House Publishing

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• I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

  Aberjhani

  Choices, Baptism, Ink

  Aberjhani (2008). “The American Poet Who Went Home Again”, p.19, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• What do you think it would have been like if Valentine had brought you up along with me? Would you have loved me?" Clary was very glad she had put her cup down, because if she hadn't, she would have dropped it. Sebastian was looking at her not with any shyness or the sort of natural awkwardness that might be attendant on such a bizarre question, but as if she were a curious, foreign life-form. "Well," she said. "You're my brother. I would have loved you. I would have...had to.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Valentine, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Reality, Talking

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• Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

  Susan Cain

  Cousin, Disappointment, Class

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Humility, Marketing, Surprise

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.61, Random House

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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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• There are elements of Piglet that are me: the shyness and the anxieties and fears. Even after all these years. The more you know, the higher your standards are and the more you have to lose.

  John Fiedler

  Years, Anxiety, Piglet

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

  Paul Merton

  Laughing, Stereotype, My Friends

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• It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

  Dian Fossey

  Individuality, Encounters, Apes

  Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too.

  Mildred Cable

  Men, People, Awkward

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• It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.

  Donella Meadows

  Friends, Dream, Real

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• Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

  Chanakya

  Men, Eight, Two

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• I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can’t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.

  Cammie McGovern

  Believe, Past, People

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• I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

  Alexis Bledel

  Jobs, Shy, I've Learned

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• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Self, Earth, Modesty

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• I was very shy growing up. My shyness manifested as a big personality, as opposed to the wallflower personality. It's been a journey getting comfortable in my skin. I've worked on trying to find the authentic balance between the bravado of my personality that was sort of a defense and the truth within my bigness.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Growing Up, Journey, Personality

  FaceBook post by Tracee Ellis Ross from Jul 06, 2012

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• Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there's also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person.

  David Foster Wallace

  Strong, Real, Loneliness

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• If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind. If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind.

  Arfa Karim

  Thinking, Mind, Want

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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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• Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.

  Dorothy Sarnoff

  People, Approval, Wonder

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

  Susan Cain

  Cousin, Disappointment, Class

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK

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