Quotes and Sayings about Shyness
"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."
- Andre Dubus
(Related: People, Belief, Shyness)
"I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness."
- Clea Duvall
(Related: People, Shyness)
"I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special."
- Michael C. Hall
(Related: Acting, Being, Sense, Shyness)
"I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world."
- Dorothy Hamill
(Related: Fantasy, Old, Shyness, Talk, World)
"I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day."
- Tom Hooper
(Related: Anxiety, Day, Insecurity, Inspiring, Overcoming, Self, Shyness)
"In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow."
- Gwen John
(Related: People, Meaning, Shadow, Shadows, Shyness, Talking, Timidity, Words)
"Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes."
- Jonathan Katz
(Related: Scientists, Shyness, Years)
"Shyness is just egoism out of its depth."
- Penelope Keith
(Related: Shyness)
"You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness."
- Susan Lucci
(Related: Shyness)
"What I never overcame is a kind of shyness."
- Kurt Masur
(Related: Shyness)
"There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more."
- Priscilla Presley
(Related: Shyness)
"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."
- J. B. Priestley
(Related: Fool, Man, Risk, Shyness)
"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people."
- Philip Zimbardo
(Related: Technology, Time, People, Revolution, Internet, Shyness)
"The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual."
- Philip Zimbardo
(Related: Shyness)
"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."
- Philip Zimbardo
(Related: Research, Shyness)