Quotes About Inhibition

You can't let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.

My daddy tried to get me up to speak for the 17 years that I worked behind the scenes, but I never had the desire. Naturally, I was nervous and kind of shy. I just didn't want to do it.

I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you.

I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.

Have you ever considered whether Perth's 'dullness' may have inspired you rather than inhibited you?

I'd kissed him on the mouth, put my tongue in his mouth, and I knew that I did not know how to stop it. I had forgotten how to stop it.

I said nothing, fearful that he would stop.

I do possess a certain rigidity, a certain prudishness. I hate it in myself.

Was it really called dry humping, if they did it underwater? Probably not. Crying shame that they both had their jeans on, because this was definitely one of those adrenaline-fuelled moments of passion with a total loss of inhibition, where need and desire trumped all reason.

He tucks me in and says good night but I catch his hand and hold him there. A side effect of the sleep syrup is that it makes people less inhibited, like white liquor, and I know I have to control my tongue.

I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.

Put me in a room with a songwriter, and I just clam up. I get shy.

Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into the studio and into the songwriting, I was going to let it kill the artist inside of me.

I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.

There is so much that needs to be said and too many things that can't ever be said.

Until I knew that it was you inside me, who has so much to say, I hesitated writing.

The FEAR OF CRITICISM is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the PLANNING and ACTION stage.

Poor self-esteem not only inhibits thought, it tends to distort it.

Emotionally remote and inhibited parents tend to produce emotionally remote and inhibited children.

My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put forth an effort, I am reminded that my only true strength lies in drinking.

Vulnerability in my mind was akin to carbohydrates: I wasn't willing to go there unless it was alcohol-induced.

She looked very much like one who is afraid to speak, because she might lose something precious that was hidden under her tongue.