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Quotes About Inhibition

Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede.
~ Jay McInerney
Podobno bardzo onieÅ›miela ludzi, gdy? nigdy nic nie mówi.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Lola was beside him , soft and very warm, and Boris could not bring himself to utter the slightest word, his voice was dead. 'Just as though I were dumb.' It was delicious, his voice was floating at the far end of his throat, soft as cotton, and could not emerge, for it was dead.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.
~ Semir Zeki
I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.
~ Dustin Hoffman
I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
~ John Fowles
Appearance is stressed far too much in workplace design. What is more relevant is whether the workplace lets you work or inhibits you.
~ Tom DeMarco
I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.
~ Tom Hooper
In our experience, one of the scariest snakes in the room is the fear of failure, which manifests itself in such ways as fear of being judged, fear of getting started, fear of the unknown. And while much has been said about fear of failure, it still is the single biggest obstacle people face to creative success.
~ Tom Kelley
He cannot hold his wine; he has no head for it. Why, on no more than three glasses, for I absolutely poured him out no more, he was on the point of singing Yankee Doodle. Yankee Doodle, in a King's ship, upon my sacred honour!
~ Patrick O'Brian
passivates" the surface, that is, makes it less reactive to oxygen.
~ Unknown
Drunk people, loud people, obvious and angry people, people stammering and stumbling, spilling drinks and scarfing small burned sausages and cheese cubes on toothpicks. They had surrendered all power and direction, they they were yelling and gasping. They strengthened me. I did not want to be that way. I stood calmer, observing them.
~ Paul Theroux
Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.
~ Paulo Coelho
I open the curtains in my office and see people out there, some walking and holding hands without having to worry about the consequences. And I can't show my love
~ Paulo Coelho
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?
~ Virginia Woolf
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
~ Michael Ironside
I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.
~ Ai Weiwei
I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.
~ Alanis Morissette
I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.
~ Unknown
Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
~ Damien Hirst
When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.
~ Mick Mars
What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
~ Dashiell Hammett
What you settle for is determined by your fear.
~ David Deida