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Quotes About Shyness

I like meeting people and I like connecting with people, but I still find Im quite shy about it. I find it stressful, but I like it.
~ Mary McCartney
I strongly feel, for me to act in any movie, the director of the movie should be known to me. Though this fact should not be important for most artists. But, you can either call me shy or traditional in my thinking - but this is an important aspect for me to sign movies.
~ Waheeda Rehman
Seeing how the kids react to you is pretty awesome. Not necessarily that they're star struck, but they're shy. They're kids. They don't know how to act to a new person.
~ Anthony Rendon
I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.
~ Sheri L. Dew
I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.
~ Brie Larson
Han gikk og gikk, men ikke noe hendte, skjønt det var fullt av folk på alle hold. Og knøttet møtte ingen som han kjente, for knøttet var et meget ensomt lite troll, og altfor sky og blyg til å si : Hei! Kan jeg få snakke litt med deg?
~ Tove Jansson
There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that's a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don't fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything's quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep—then they appear.
~ Tove Jansson
That's a lot of thoughts," he said. "Weren't you paralyzingly shy at one point? What happened to that unobtrusive, quiet dragon?" "It turns out it's actually much easier to talk to you when I can't hear what you're thinking," Moon admitted,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.
~ Paulo Coelho
Nothing beats that moment of revelation when shyness loses ground to boldness, and quiet moans turn into squeals and swearing.
~ Paulo Coelho
Supongo que ser tímido significa básicamente estar absorbido por uno mismo hasta el punto de que se hace difícil estar rodeado de otras personas
~ David Foster Wallace
legs which not even orange Keds with purple-glitter-encrusted laces could make unserious. Shy
~ David Foster Wallace
Supongo que ser tímido significa básicamente estar absorbido por uno mismo hasta el punto en que estar rodeado de otras personas se hace realmente difícil
~ David Foster Wallace
Byla to veliká odbornice na ?ekání, mírná, pasivní, nesmÄ›lá, a proto ji ?asto bolely zuby, neboÃ…Â¥ se skvÄ›le hodila do ?ekárny u zubaÃ…â"¢e a její zuby o tom vÄ›dÄ›ly.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Nadie imagina todos los alaridos que se ocultan tras el silencio de los tímidos. Dejaríamos sordo al universo entero si nos lo propusiéramos.
~ Xavier Velasco
And I was very shy as a kid if you sang me 'Happy Birthday ' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.
~ Cody Horn
Tess is a bit shy," her mother used to tell people in an audible whisper, her hand over her mouth. "Gets it from her father, I'm afraid." Tess had heard the cheerful disrespect in her mother's voice and had come to believe that any form of shyness was wrong- morally wrong, in fact. You should want to go to parties. You should want to be surrounded by people. No wonder she felt so ashamed of her shyness, as if it were an embarrassing physical ailment that needed to be hidden at all costs.
~ Liane Moriarty
When she was a child her mother had once told her shyness was almost a form of selfishness. "You see, when you hang your head like that, darling, people think you don't like them!
~ Liane Moriarty
No wonder she felt so ashamed of her shyness, as if it were an embarrassing physical ailment that needed to be hidden at all costs.
~ Liane Moriarty
Potter journal entry: "It is odious to a shy person to be snubbed as conceited, especially when the shy person happened to be right, and under the temptation of sauciness.
~ Unknown
After all, a forgivable shyness and social discomfort could easily be mistaken for their more aggressive counterparts: aloofness and hostility.
~ Lionel Shriver
Nick turned out to be a shy boy, uncertain in groups and in new situations, but also very brave, determined to overcome his fear." - Will, as a parent describing his son
~ Unknown
A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I fell into acting because I was really shy, and so at night after work, I took public speaking and improv classes, and I started going to auditions sort of as a dare. That was my version of 'Fear Factor.'
~ Hong Chau