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
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. – Sydney Smith
But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn’t sure which.
I’m very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness. – Don Rickles
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. – AndrÈ Dubus
Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
Deep rivers run quiet. -Haruki Murakami
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.
Ignorance wavers between extreme audacity and extreme shyness. – Valery
introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness. – Steve Martin
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.
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
I almost tell him that I’d never be able to do something like that, just take out my instrument and begin playing on a street corner.
My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.
Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, standing apart from the rest.
Believe In Your Flyness Conquer Your Shyness. – Kanye West
Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
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
So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.
Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it’s more an awkwardness. Daniel Radcliffe
Shy people are my favorites. The unmistakable glint of shyness in someone’s eyes can mesmerize me for years!
The idea that you are not good enough and that people will not like you is something that has been ingrained into your mind over many years.
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth. – Penelope Keith
What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.
I realized I really was shy. And once I was in it, I couldn’t escape.
Act the way that you want to feel.
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.
The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.
When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able to understand very clearly why he did so: a longing to break free and to breathe in the fresh air?
Sometimes quiet people really do have a lot to say. They’re just being careful about who they open up to.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it’s boldness. – Victor Hugo
We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid ‘blossom’ into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis.
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself.
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
You’re always saying people don’t like you but people can’t like something that’s not there.
You’re not shy. You just like who you like.
There are many ways you can go about overcoming shyness. Start to make a positive change in your life today.
