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Quotes About Inhibition

There´s so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraint and all hung-up on like literally inhibitions and gramatical fears...
~ Jack Kerouac
Hay tantas cosas que hacer, tantas cosas que escribir! Cuánto se necesita, incluso para empezar a dar cuenta de todo sin los frenos distorsionadores y los cuelgues como esas inhibiciones literarias y los miedos gramaticales…
~ Jack Kerouac
John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.
~ Jack London
There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!
~ Anna Chlumsky
In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!
~ David Byrne
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
~ V. S. Pritchett
I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
~ Jack Dee
People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
~ Albert Ellis
There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you'd been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you didn't have permission to write.
~ Nathan Englander
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
~ Sydney Smith
Partial Quote; "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage". Full Quote; "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort".
~ Sydney Smith
She wanted to say something that would let him know how much he'd hurt her. Something that would hurt him. But words failed her. They tangled together like knotted shoestrings in her mind, so she said nothing.
~ T. Greenwood
For me, Vegas is a vacation from being overinhibited, in the highly overinhabited yet uninhabitable city of complete uninhibition.
~ Tammy Bloemzaken
I just don't have that natural instinct to be able to let my guard down and start speaking to people. I never have - I've always been a bit socially awkward, even with people I've known for a long time.
~ Lucy Bronze
I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
~ Kristen Stewart
There are so many things we don't know about because they don't get spoken about, and people might be embarrassed to speak up or might be shamed into not speaking up.
~ Bria Vinaite
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
~ Samuel Johnson
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man
~ Hesiod
You have created sexual embarrassment, repression, and shame—which has led to sexual inhibition, dysfunction, and violence. You will, as a society, always be inhibited about that over which you are embarrassed; always be dysfunctional with behaviors which have been repressed, and always act out violently in protest of being made to feel shame about that over which you know in your heart you should never have felt shame at all.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
It's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. ... you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.
~ Ned Vizzini
You're not expressing a lot of emotion about these things." "Oh. Well. They're too big.
~ Ned Vizzini
It's hard for me to talk to her. All I can do when I look at her is think about the day when I won't be able to. So I spend all my time at school thinking about her, wishing I could see her right then, but when I get to her house, I don't know what to say.
~ Nicholas Sparks
When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.
~ Amanda Peet