Shyness Quotes
If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!
All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.
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.
Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.
Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.
If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind.
Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
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.
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.
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
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.
If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.
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 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.
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
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 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.
Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.
true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.
