Quotes About Inhibition

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

I think alcohol is the worst drug of all. It makes you do things that you would never do or say things that you wouldn't.

If you're shy when you're singing, that's the worst combination.

Anything I shouldn't laugh at makes me laugh. I mean, I'm bad at that, when somebody is singing something terribly and I'm thinking to myself, 'If I laugh now, this is the absolute worst thing I could ever do,' and then I start laughing and I can't stop.

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

When I first started, you couldn't mention divorce or death. You couldn't show smelly socks. You couldn't show a snake. They took a skunk out of my strip one time.

Shooting on the iPhone has become more of a directors' tool to lower inhibition of first-time actors and nonprofessionals. While it's helped me become more mobile, no pun intended - running around, finding tight areas and different ways of moving the camera - to me it's more about using this device to catch candid moments. That's the biggest thing.

thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious.

Sipski defines orgasm as a reflex of the autonomic nervous system that can be either facilitated or inhibited by cerebral input (thoughts and feelings).

Sin embargo, ¡cuántas cosas estamos a punto de descubrir si la cobardía y la dejadez no entorpecieran nuestra curiosidad!

Cuántas cosas podríamos conocer si la cobardía y la pereza no entorpecieran nuestra curiosidad!

Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted to talk she couldn't say a word.

In fact, the only difference between Trump's style of politics and theirs was Trump's lack of inhibition. He understood instinctively what moved the conservative base most, and he offered it up in an unadulterated form.

Muchos de nosotros no vivimos nuestros sueños porque vivimos nuestros miedos. LES BROWN, ESCRITOR

Personality freezes us in a safe and secure pattern of being that we probably finished making up somewhere in junior high school. Most of our "permanent" personality was shaped from fear: fear of embarrassment, fear of losing face, fear of appearing uncool.

Owners of the spirit are beautiful losers. They risk all. They are losers because they have lost all fear of embarrassment. They have lost all inhibition. They have lost all concern for what other people might think.

How many people have never raised their hand before?

These "anthropologists of peace" (who in fact are rather aggressive academics—the ethologist Johan van der Dennen calls them the Peace and Harmony Mafia) have maintained that humans and other animals are strongly inhibited from killing their own kind, that war is a recent invention, and that fighting among native peoples was ritualistic and harmless until they encountered European colonists.10

The explanations may help us understand the parts of the brain that made a behavior tempting, but they say nothing about the other parts of the brain (primarily in the prefrontal cortex) that could have inhibited the behavior by anticipating how the community would respond to it. [...] Why should we discard our lever on the system for inhibition just because we are coming to understand the system for temptation?

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.