Quotes About Shyness

One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever gaining a foothold. If only we would realize that the other person is probably just as shy as we are and is simply waiting—and hoping—for us to make the first move.

I was shy and struggling with it.

I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.

You would think, because I stayed to myself and I was shy, that I'd be a good student, but actually, I was a bad student. I was in detention a lot, mainly for cutting, being late to class. I was in tardy hall a lot. I hate the idea of homework. I don't get it.

I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.

I used to live in Rajouri Garden. I was a shy child, dutiful to parents, serious in studies but happier on the sports ground.

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

I'd been really shy as a kid, I had a terrible stutter, and I thought music would be a good outlet. And it definitely seemed to improve things for me, so I stuck with it.

I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.

I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.

For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it's the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you.

Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

I'm not a real social person, I'm shy and a lot of the business is just social.

You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that's what all the shyness is all about and what everybody fears.

I am shy. Sometimes painfully shy. And it's especially painful when someone reminds me about it.

Schulz] came to see that the better part of his shyness was really vanity, or self-centeredness. Shyness is an illusion, he would say, late in life. If you get out and do something and talk to people, you don't have to be shy. Shyness is the overtly self-conscious thinking that you are the only person in the world; that how you look and what you do is of any importance.

I appreciate some of the attention and the accolades, but I typically shy away from it.

El fruto de la timidez no es ni ganancia ni pérdida.

Like, I know I'm unbearably obnoxious at home, but I'm actually pretty shy out there. I'm like the chubby quiet brown girl who is decent academically, but who never risks venturing an opinion. It's weird, because, like, in a world full of frost giants and dwarves and demons and spellcasting, my fantasies were really about being a confident, decisive person who had their shit together and was listened to.

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

Connie and Nell and Anne looked on and admired and ran to get coloured string and pieces of wire and tied labels on to the little parcels which were to be given to their guests. It was all tremendous fun and, if the truth were told, Nell and Anne enjoyed the preparations very much more than the party itself. Nell and Anne were so shy, and so unused to the society of their kind, that they found parties an ordeal.