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I have seldom been described as shy.
Never let shyness conquer your mind.
I'd let my golden chances pass me by.
Retain your shyness and drop your shame.
Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
I didn't overcome my shyness. I am still shy.
It is only through timidity that states are lost.
Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.
My father was a unique man, but he had a shyness about him.
I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.
There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.
You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.
I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.
I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.
introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness
I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.
Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.
Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.
Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.
I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.
If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.
Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.
Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.
I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.
I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really.
I think a lot of my shyness and non-athleticism came because I didn't have a father to instill those in me.
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.
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 has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out 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.
Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
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 think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.
Divorce is hard enough when you're an adult - never mind when you're a child. That was probably when my shyness started, when I was at my shyest.
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.
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.
When you're shy, the worst thing you can do is go into all these casting rooms and be scrutinized. But with shyness, I think you just have to bite the bullet.
The Apostle Paul did what he had to do to spread the message of God. I realize that that is what I have to do; I have to bite the bullet and overcome my shyness.
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.
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.
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.