Quotes About Shyness

Come on, you shy blokes like me. You've all got your vain, narcissistic fantasies. Just once in a while, give them external tactile reference.

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

Ram?sesem singurii care mai credeam în noi în?ine. De aceea tr?iam între noi, vânam între noi, ne c?s?toream între noi. Lumea credea c? suntem îngânfa?i. Eram doar timizi. Ne era team? de ceilal?i oameni. Ne era team? de viitor, care era contrariul trecutului. Închideam în urma noastr? toate u?ile care d?deau spre o lume devenit? prea mare pentru noi ?i pentru speran?ele noastre înl?n?uite de amintiri.

I think, actually, that none of us understands anyone else very well, because we're all too shy to show what matters the most. If you ask me, it's a major design flaw. We ought to be able to say, Here, look what I am. I think it would be quite a relief.

Shyness, as I have told you many times, is simply another species of vanity. Banish it.

Nobody listened. Nobody took any notice of Mrs Wilkins. She was the kind of person who is not noticed at parties. Her clothes, infested by thrift, made her practically invisible, her face was non-arresting, her conversation was reluctant, she was shy. And if one's clothes and face and conversation are all negligible, though Mrs Wilkins – who recognised her disabilities – what, at parties, is there left of one?

he always went straight to the machines and in a strange way it was released to because having to talk with someone, even the smallest, most casual talks, was sometimes quite hard because you always felt they judged you or you always felt shy or that you were saying a stupid or wrong thing. The pitfalls of human exchange, Sophia said.

he always went straight to the machines and in a strange way it was a relief to because having to talk with someone, even the smallest, most casual talks, was sometimes quite hard because you always felt they judged you or you always felt shy or that you were saying a stupid or wrong thing. The pitfalls of human exchange, Sophia said.

This was, I thought, the language of shy men, men too much alone with their reading and their ideas - politics, war, distant countries, tyrants. Men who would bury their heads in such stuff just to avert their eyes from a woman's simple heartache.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.

I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the one shrinking in the back. What I really wanted to do was become a writer, and I don't think the residue of that has ever gone away. I still feel the ultimate achievement would be to write a novel.

I am definitely not as polite as Beatrice, I have to say. I tell it as it is. I am shyer at first.

I am very shy with people I don't know. I'm positively awkward.

I was awful my first time. I was so shy eating in front of people. It was so awkward. But my next contest, I brought a bunch of my family out, and I won that one. I remember I almost barfed because my mom, at the end of the contest, she yelled out, 'Do it for Mama!' Everybody laughed. It was one of the closest I've ever been to barfing.

I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

Rapping gave me confidence. I got asked to do talent shows and I came up out of my shyness that way. My name was Xperteez back then.

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

I am quite shy really, but I always try to make time to talk to people and have pictures taken.

I'm not such a talkative person, and I don't like speaking in front of a lot of people.

I was a very quiet, shy child. I just became quite talkative in high school, in Grade 10 onwards.

The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.