Quotes About Inhibition

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

Leaders who aren't conduits are either dams of dry.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Rohypnol

Blood rushed to the regions of my body that I associated with naughtiness, and I was powerless to stop it.

If you drink anymore, you're going to be positively flammable.

Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

Imagination makes cowards of us all.

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

How many paths had I avoided in life? How many times had I been content to stop at "close enough"--too afraid to push ahead? Too afraid to let go?Too afraid to give up . . . control.

Your fear of looking stupid, Shannon, is holding you back. I think it's time.

Playing with them was boring, and it wasn't even their fault. It was just the notion of playing itself. She had never gotten the hang of it, even when she was a child. You needed to be able to adopt a personality other than your own in order to fully immerse yourself in the world of play, and it was burden enough carrying her own self around.

Sólo el primer paso cuesta. Quizá se podría decir eso de todo, o de la mayoría de los esfuerzos y de lo que se hace con desagrado o repugnancia o reservas, es muy poco lo que se acomete sin ninguna reserva, casi siempre hay algo que nos induce a no actuar y a no dar ese paso, a no salir de casa y no movernos, a no dirigirnos a nadie y a evitar que otros nos hablen, nos miren, nos digan.

And to top everything he's got this problem he can't let her know how he feels: What-he's shy? Shy! Tell me who in this goddamn world is shy? Young, old, the lame and halt. Clobber you over the head with what they feel. Oh Man I wish just once in my long fucked-up life someone had come up to me who was too shy to tell me what they thought of me...

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.