Being Intimidated Quotes

#1. So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you're on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world.

Heidi Klum

#2. Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Maya Angelou

#3. We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about,.

Gerald Nicosia

#4. Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. When you're playing jazz, you have to somehow overcome that feeling of being intimidated because your aim is to portray that freedom in what you're playing.

Buddy DeFranco

#7. It's great to see young players like Kieran coming out and not being intimidated by it.
(on Kieran Richardson)

Rio Ferdinand

#8. Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

Aldo Leopold

#9. I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details.

Anne Bishop

#10. If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated

Aung San Suu Kyi

#11. Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

Ralph Marston

#12. In Las Vegas, the magnitude is impressive, but the humanity is gone. It feels like you're being intimidated out of your money instead of inviting you to come have this experience.

Eric Whitacre

#13. The only people who are not in awe of Emerson's powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is aware of this, and often complains about it; so from time to time I like to put on a little show of being intimidated. 'Proceed, my dear,' I said apologetically.

Elizabeth Peters

#14. I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.

Laura Mvula

#15. You saw the way everyone looked at him? And when I asked for nominations, his was the first name mentioned. I don't like it, his being Nurse Temple's son. That's a bad coincidence. Get a read on him. If he has the power, we may not be able to wait to deal with him.

Michael Grant

#16. There's a chromosome that goes haywire when you turn thirteen. It commands you to live in filth while withstanding all threats by parents to clean up your act.

David Baldacci

#17. If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

Bill Watterson

#18. Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I could hide behind my camera but eventually I came to realize that if I was polite and friendly to them, then they probably would be to me too - a good life lesson.

Derek Ridgers

#19. He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father.

David Louden

#20. Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.

Elisabeth Shue

#21. I did takwondo from the time I was pretty young and also played I did taekwondo for martial arts and then also played football, baseball, and basketball against older kids because of my brother being older. I learned pretty quickly to not be intimidated and to not back down.

Robbie Lawler

#22. I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

Zoe Wanamaker

#23. My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.

Gary Hume

#24. If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

Veronica Roth

#25. I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music.

Patty Griffin

#26. Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

Robert Brault

#27. It's a shame that so many people are so intimidated and bothered by Tim Tebow's stance as a Christian. He's not bothering anybody. He's simply being who He is and giving all glory to His Lord.

Monica Johnson

#28. I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

David Bowie

#29. It's an arbitrary thing if you're born with an XX or XY chromosome, but it can determine your experience of the world. It's about whether you are physically intimidating vs. being physically intimidated. It determines whether you are the one to take an active role in sex and society.

Abigail Tarttelin

#30. With positive attitude and persistent endurance, you can overcome any challenge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.

Arthur C. Clarke

#32. There are far too many beautiful women in the world out there who don't get how attractive they are simply because stupid men are too busy being too intimidated to talk to them. Lucky for my girl, I'm a cocky son of a bitch. - Jonathan di Luca

R. Matthews

#33. Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.

James Siegel

#34. [Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

Kumi Naidoo

#35. Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.

Sigourney Weaver

#36. I hate being judged all the time and having to hide my fear, my emotions, my vulnerabilities. You think I'm a brave, talented young woman, who is never intimidated by anything. Well, you're wrong. Everything intimidates me. I avoid glances, smiles, close contact.

Paulo Coelho

#37. I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.

Mandy Moore

#38. That's so mature. I thought we were past junior high school." - Arelia
"We may be, but boys will never be" - Sabrina

Kira Saito

#39. I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

Taylor Swift

#40. Sometimes people misunderstand being scared and cautious. The former is when you are intimidated into the state of anxiety and confusion, while the later is when you acknowledge a risk but undoubtedly expecting positive outcome.

Uzoma Nnadi