Quotes About Inhibition

When a drunk gets eighty-sixed out of a bar, he's not supposed to buy drinks for the people still inside.

Hiding a talent is not exclusive to any one particular group of people: young, old, black, white, Latin. It doesn't matter. It's universal. The idea that you have a gift or talent is always kind of threatening.

Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.

Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

I'd like to fuck Andrea Laiacona and see her tits, but I can't get hard and I prefer Big Pharma, anyway! (Color me 'bitch' — I ain't shit !)

If we conceive of free speech as promoting the search for truth—as the metaphor of "the marketplace of ideas" suggests—we should be troubled whether that search is hindered by public officials or private citizens. The same is true of democratic justifications for free speech. If the point of free speech is to facilitate the open debate that is essential for self-rule, any measure that impairs that debate should give us pause, regardless of its source.

Alcohol makes you less inhibited.' I said, 'I'm not inhibited, I just don't like you enough to want to do anything with you.' I guess alcohol makes you more honest too.

Confrontation reduces the effects of inhibition," reversing the detrimental physiological problems that result from inhibition. When we make a lifestyle of openly confronting painful feelings and we "resolve the trauma, there will be a lowering of the overall stress on the body." Confrontation "forces a rethinking of events. Confronting a trauma helps people understand and, ultimately, assimilate the event.

Of course it was the alcohol," said Teresa. "That's the whole point of alcohol.

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.

In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.

You can't observe as much if you're observed by others.

We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough. And so we die before we reach middle age, although we will not be lowered into the ground until we pass three score and ten.

My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.

Wherever their laughter came from, Ender couldn't find such a place in himself.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

our sexual feelings, in which we see the greatest upheaval and lack of inhibition and control, belong to the emotions. Is that right?

Love makes cowards of us all.

Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.

I decided that I wanted to say to Sin-Jun, I like your skirt. But sometimes speaking is so hard! It's like standing still, then sprinting. I kept rehearsing the sentence in my head, examining it for flaws.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so scared of life!