Top 74 Shyness Is Quotes
#1. shyness is caused by an internal feeling that you are not worthy to be in the conversation.
Scott Adams
#2. Call it anything else if you will - fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating
- but "shyness" is the historic word for it.
Richard N. Bolles
#3. A struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.
Marilyn Monroe
#4. My Shyness Is Often Mistaken As My Rudeness
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#5. Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart
a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.
Pablo Neruda
#6. 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.
Mika.
#7. I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.
Nigella Lawson
#8. What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
Philip Zimbardo
#9. 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.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#10. Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.
Jane Austen
#11. I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.
Ruth Rendell
#14. Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.
Dorothy Sarnoff
#15. We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.
Susan Cain
#16. 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.
Susan Cain
#17. The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#18. 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.
Susan Cain
#19. Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.
Steven Morrissey
#20. You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that's what all the shyness is all about and what everybody fears.
Philip Roth
#21. 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.
Philip G. Zimbardo
#22. Shyness is shit. It isn't cute or feminine or appealing. It's torment, and it's shit.
Octavia E. Butler
#23. If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind,
Arfa Karim
#24. 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
#25. Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.
Daniel Handler
#26. Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#27. Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.
Rhys Ifans
#28. Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
Susan Cain
#30. Introversion and shyness are not synonymous. Introversion is a natural personality trait where we go inside ourselves to process our experiences. Shyness, on the other hand, is a condition marked by fear or extreme anxiety in social situations.
Adam S. McHugh
#31. She also knows full well that "shy" is a negative word in our society. Above all, do not shame her for her shyness.
Susan Cain
#32. 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.
Lisa Kleypas
#33. 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
#34. Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.
Vernon Baker
#35. What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
Kurt Masur
#36. Having kids is the deal-breaker on shyness! Once you have a baby, you learn to speak up loud and clear to protect them, defend them, and encourage them. I have three sons, so I've experienced that in triplicate.
Lori Foster
#37. 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.
Dylan Penn
#38. It is only through timidity that states are lost.
Voltaire
#39. 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
#40. I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.
Morrissey
#41. 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.
Richard Gere
#42. 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
#43. I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down except for the part that says unbelievably stupid things and the part that is aware that I am saying unbelievably stupid things.
David Foster Wallace
#44. The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.
Alain De Botton
#45. People like you don't go mad, Vi. They're quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long
April Genevieve Tucholke
#46. You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.
Susan Lucci
#48. An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
Cyril Connolly
#49. Small children will talk to anyone, once the guard of shyness has fallen, and they have, like the elderly, a sense of immediacy, a need to say or do something, now, now, the minute it is thought of, combined with that other sense, of the complete irrelevance of time.
Susan Hill
#50. Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.
Chogyam Trungpa
#51. One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.
C.S. Lewis
#52. Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
Criss Jami
#53. Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery.
David D. Burns
#54. Shyness, inexhaustible source of misfortunes in practical life, is the direct cause, indeed unique, each inner wealth.
Emil Cioran
#55. A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.
Vernon Lee
#56. True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#57. There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.
Priscilla Presley
#58. The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.
Victor Hugo
#59. Introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness
Steve Martin
#60. A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.
Khalil Gibran
#61. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Andre Dubus
#62. feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#64. I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it's a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears.
Jose Gonzalez
#65. 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.
Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804
#66. I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.
Susan Cain
#67. A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation.
Arthur Symons
#68. I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music. Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.
Randy Newman
#69. I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and ... "
I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.
Louise Rennison
#70. 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
#71. The fear of man is no respecter of persons. It might be called codependency by adults, peer pressure with teens, and shyness with children, but whatever it is called, it all betrays the same idolatrous heart.
Edward T. Welch
#72. 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.
Laura Wiess
#73. Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.
Kirkpatrick Sale
#74. Ear is the energy to do your best in a new situation. The feeling of fear (anxiety, nervousness, shyness, or any of its other aliases) is really "preparation energy". It's getting you ready to excel, to succeed, to do your best and to learn the most.
Peter McWilliams
