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Quotes About Self-conscious

I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.
~ Amy Grant
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.
~ Ben Fountain
I'm always in those tabloids where they show who's badly dressed. It's funny, because each time I'm getting my picture taken, I'm thinking, This is a nice outfit.
~ Sarah Silverman
I called back, but not loud enough, probably. I don't like making noise in public
~ Markus Zusak
The crowd did what crowds do. As I made my way through, each person stood and played with the quietness of it. It was a small concoction of disjointed hand movements, muffled sentences, and mute, self-conscious turns
~ Markus Zusak
All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.
~ Arthur Golden
I sank into my seat, my face hot.
~ Atul Gawande
He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!
~ Jared Padalecki
Clark, I've never seen anyone more uncomfortable with a human body than you. You act like it's something radioactive.
~ Jojo Moyes
Terri as a child was shy and overweight.
~ Jon Eisenberg
I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
For a time in high school, I had glasses, braces, and a cast. I like to call this look 'no date for homecoming.'
~ Lauren Graham
You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.
~ Paul Theroux
I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal. I'm too self-conscious otherwise.
~ Gillian Flynn
I worry for a second that she wants to set us up: I am not interested in being set up. I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal. I'm too self-conscious otherwise. I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I'm obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make u for the fake charm, and then I've basically turned into Liza Minelli: I'm dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me.
~ Gillian Flynn
I worry for a second that she wants to set us up: I am not interested in being set up. I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal. I'm too self-conscious otherwise. I feel myself trying to be charming, and the I realize I'm obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I've basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I'm dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me.
~ Gillian Flynn
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
~ Larry Harvey
I am very self-conscious about seeing myself on television but I do feel people relate to me so it's worth it.
~ Sonja Morgan
I don't like the camera. I get very self-conscious with it and then spend way too much time not looking self-conscious instead of being free, as I do on stage, to do my work.
~ Laurie Metcalf
I don't wear strappy tops. Everyone feels self-conscious about something on their body. It's just finding a style that works for you, and I don't really suit strappy tops or dresses, so I avoid them.
~ Jessica Ennis-Hill
Ray Bradbury said that thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious. When you think you sit calmly and try to reason through something in a structured, logical way. Creativity dances to a different tune. Once you flip that switch, things get a bit chaotic. Ideas start buzzing. Images start popping into your head. Fragments of all kinds of data find their way into orbit.
~ Sean Patrick
Don't confuse creativity and imagination with "thinking" either. Ray Bradbury said that thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious. When you think you sit calmly and try to reason through something in a structured, logical way. Creativity dances to a different tune.
~ Sean Patrick