Quotes About Inhibition

It was a hell of a lot easier to be silent and overlooked than to be constantly shut down.

I know some people who are afraid to write a business letter because they will encounter and reveal themselves.

we obscure our self-knowledge with anxiety; that it is not what we desire but what we fear and dread we may desire that impedes us.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

I think everyone has a door in their brain that says, 'Do not exit here.' If you go past it, you'll find all the dumb thoughts in there, all the stupid things that shouldn't be said. I've probably gone there more than anyone should in a given lifetime.

People are often very limiting to themselves and can be their own worst enemy.

But perhaps the answer is to stop writing altogether, for when I do write, even now as I write this very sentence, this very word, I am aware of a ghost reader who leans over my shoulder watching my pen, who twists my words and perverts my meaning, and makes me uncomfortable in the privacy of my own thoughts. It is very aggravating to be presented to oneself in a light so different from the familiar one, even when it is clearly a false light. I will not write any more.

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

heat that rots ambition and stuns the intellect and will.

The behavioral level is the site of most human behavior. Its actions can be enhanced or inhibited by the reflective layer and, in turn, it can enhance or inhibit the visceral layer.

Don't drink & tweet.

The inhibition of behavior provoked by cat odor is remarkably powerful and long-lasting. As summarized in Figure 1.1, following a single exposure to cat odor, animals continued to exhibit inhibition of play for up to five successive days. Our interpretation of this effect is that some unconditioned attribute of cat smell can innately arouse a fear system in the rat brain, and this emotional state becomes rapidly associated with the contextual cues of the chamber.

Anxiety and depression are both caused by an imbalance in chemicals in our nervous system that stimulate and inhibit how frequently nerves communicate with each other. Too much stimulation or too much inhibition breaks the delicate balance in our nervous system and leads to aberrant behavior.

Freedom like charity, begins at home. No man is worthy to fight in the cause of freedom unless he has conquered his internal masters. He must learn control and discipline over the disastrous passions that would lead him to folly and ruin. He must conquer inordinate vanity and anger, self-deception, fear, and inhibition.

Shy bairnes get nay toffee

Nothing could be calculated to make a shy girl less interesting than the command to be more interesting.

Skipping: a joyful impulse, stunted at puberty.

No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

The fear of getting caught was not driven by the fear of paying the price. Rather, it was the fear of having to stop.

I think fear keeps people in mundane lives. Fear of freedom, fear of loneliness; it's a powerful opium.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.