Top 36 Stifle Yourself Quotes
#1. Romantic Egoist
Nozomi: You've got an idea in your head ... how you should act, but you can't act like, so you stifle yourself and don't even try.
Bisco Hatori
#2. I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.
Lily Cole
#3. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
John Stuart Mill
#4. Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.
Patti Smith
#6. I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
Taylor Swift
#7. Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.
Wafa Sultan
#8. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.
Glenn Beck
#9. It is necessary for a Christian to fast, in order to clear his mind, to rouse and develop his feelings, and to stimulate his will to useful activity. These three human capabilities we darken and stifle above all by 'surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life' (Lk. 21:34).
John Of Kronstadt
#10. Too many rules with stifle innovation.
Sergey Brin
#11. I am most deeply concerned over a trend toward conformity, a growth of anti-intellectualism, which manifests itself in a sneering attitude toward education, science, and the arts. The tendency is to stifle mental freedom, which is the very basis of a democracy's life and growth.
Anais Nin
#12. If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.
Steve Rizzo
#13. The day you give priority to bogus ethics over human reactions, you become a loser. Human reactions are priceless. Rules should never, ever stifle emotions. Tennis is a very human game facing a great danger that it will be strangulated in a cat's cradle of unnecessary or inhumane rules.
Ted Tinling
#14. Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.
Marcus Brigstocke
#15. Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy.
Richard Blackaby
#16. All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
Rachel Bloom
#17. You just have those days. You just allow yourself to have those days. I think everybody has bad days. So because of that, when you recognize it, just allow it to be. It is what it is. I don't think you should ever stifle your frustration, ever.
Donald Faison
#18. Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.
Frank Iero
#19. Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The effect is to produce an over-regulated culture, just as the effect of too much control in the market is to produce an over-regulated-regulated market.
Lawrence Lessig
#20. We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour.
Sigmar Gabriel
#21. At home, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling up inside me. And among external sensations the only one possible for me was reading. Reading was, of course, a great help. It stirred, delighted, and tormented me.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Madame De Stael
#23. The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
Malcolm Gladwell
#24. That's what violence was: emotion leaking out from consciousness into the physical world, linking up with the muscles of the arms and shoulders and diaphragm and, inevitably, the face. Stifle emotion during an act of violence and the face becomes a blank, unreadable mask.
Ryu Murakami
#25. Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.
Hugh Jackman
#26. Ignore the voice that scorns and ridicules to ensure it does not mold you. Stifling subtleties like these, if unchecked, are oppressive. Freedom is a love supreme birthright, not a privilege to be governed by any other.
T.F. Hodge
#27. The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
Ralph Nader
#28. I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
J.K. Rowling
#29. The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.
Helen Rowland
#30. Do you know why men name their cocks?"
"No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter.
"So most of the major decisions in their lives won't be made by a total stranger.
Linda Howard
#31. Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.
Robert Anton Wilson
#32. Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.
Seth Shostak
#33. If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.
Myron Scholes
#34. Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.
Flannery O'Connor
#35. The appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.
Susan Sontag
#36. Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
John Berger
