Quotes About Inhibition

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor.

Children aren't only less inhibited than adults; they are also less powerful, and smaller too. They may or may not be more open-minded and liberated than grown-ups, but they are forced to live in a world that wasn't designed for them, and one that is not primarily concerned with their desires and their welfare. And so children are constantly compromising, constantly adjusting to an environment that is clearly not theirs, not yet. That's wisdom, not innocence.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

One of man's deepest habits is keeping alert for dangers and difficulties, refusing to allow himself to explore his own mind because he daren't take his eyes off the world around him.

For her too, she had words on her lips, which died unborn, lay in her mind and turned to poison.

But Alberta sat there wretchedly. God knows who put the words into her mouth. They were not her own. They were foreign to her, stupid words behind which she hid herself. Her own never saw the light of day, they died unborn or withered on her tongue and were born distorted. She was disabled, she was without the use of speech, she would die of muteness.

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

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

You really should discard your inhibitions,' he said. 'They could get in the way of yielding to temptation.

The secret to those who write is that they come to the art simply because they cannot speak.

He smiled. "And you liked what you saw." Oh God. She had. She really, really had. She closed her eyes and wished for a big hole to swallow her up. "I hardly even noticed you were naked.

He was making it impossible for her to resist him, or even remember why she'd wanted to.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy.

If I think, I wont drink. if I drink, I cant think.

No one ever asks what causes heterosexuality because no one is interested in stopping it

All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.