Quotes About Self-consciousness

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

Sorry men, but I think boys are a little more oblivious in high school. Girls are just more sensitive. We're so concerned about how we look and how we're doing.

Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard to shatter myths is ultimately self-destructive.

You can't feel yourself blushing. That's lady novelist talk.

People will take a picture of themselves and start looking at themselves and decide their neck looks weird. They see a celebrity selfie and wonder how she looks so good, and why her lips look so big.

I think the first couple of times you do make-out scenes, you psych yourself out and it's really nerve racking.

I'm nervous and awkward.

I still get a little nervous when talking to girls. Which is awful, and embarrassing, because I feel like I shouldn't.

Out on the hill under the helmet, nobody sees your face or hair, but then you take it off, and they do - that's the part I'm nervous about.

It is never easy to face the camera, especially for the newcomers.

I flinch when I see my name in the newspapers.

Three writers together would be a nightmare of obstreperous self-consciousness.

Any situation where I feel like people are looking at me and I've got to speak is the kind of thing I have nightmares about.

Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am...

Perhaps he would wake up the next morning realizing that he'd made an utter ass of himself, but there were worse animals than the ass. And in London you saw asses wandering around everywhere. Nobody seemed to mind, much. Dennis had spent an awful lot of time not making an ass of himself, and he didn't have anything to show for it. The

The other dancers were embarrassed themselves, which meant that they weren't actually embarrassing; they weren't doing much more than tapping their feet, and the only way you could tell they were dancing at all was that they were facing each other but not looking at each other and not talking.

It may seem odd to you that their coming to lunch bothers me as much as it does, but one of the worst things about finding out about a thing like this is that you feel stupid, and the idea that I actually invited them over and they actually accepted and all three of them actually sat there thinking I was some sort of cheese made it that much worse.

An individual, for example, who is afraid of blushing when he enters a large room and faces many people will actually be more prone to blush under these circumstances. In this context, one might amend the saying The wish is father to the thought to The fear is mother of the event.

Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

Modern women are frustrated and angry, their experience is limited; modern men are obsessed with the letter "I"; their writing is full of self-conscious indecency, self-conscious virility. It is essentially sterile.

You were afraid to look up because you felt your face might be seen from above.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.