Quotes About Inhibition

Timidity has followed me throughout the years.

Those whose every act is praised are handicapped by adoration. They grow stunted, shrivel up, lose the impulse to continue. Praise can kill.

Paying attention also requires inhibiting certain responses when making the above choices. This involves inhibiting the following: Acting until information has been processed Speaking out one's thoughts (This involves internalizing speech or "talking inside your head" without actually speaking one's thoughts out loud unless that is the desired thing to do!)

Feelings were best tucked out of sight where they couldn't get in anyone's way.

I wanted to tell him more. I had the fleeting desire to tell him a lot more, but old habits and the fear of revealing too much made the words congeal in my throat.

I couldn't look at you and breath at the same time.

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.

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.

You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech.

I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can't think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.

When our minds are conditioned by prejudice or paralyzed by traditional views, we may face a truth in Scripture again and again without its ever touching us. Our spiritual inhibition concerning that truth permits us to see, but not to perceive. The truth lies dormant within, mentally apprehended but not spiritually applied.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

When you feel spontaneously excited by something—a new career you never thought about, a haircut you see in a magazine and want—shame is the voice that brings you "back down to earth.

Cookie, you have to stop preemptively ending things before they even start. I know you're afraid of making yourself vulnerable, but if you keep impeding things before they even begin, just out of fear, you'll never know. I'd never know joy. Shit damn. I worried she was right. What if I was snapping into screw you, your loss mode too fast? How do you take back, No you're the one who missed? Me and my drama trap doors.

Maybe he didn't really encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn't being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't really even know me?

Adults are bad at remembering how powerful they can be because somewhere along the line, they were shamed for their imagination.

Maybe he didn't encourage me to do things, but he didn't prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn't do things because I didn't want him thinking different about me. But the thing is, I wasn't being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't really even know me?

Why—why—" stammered the youth struggling with his balking tongue.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.

The only thing holding me back was myself.