16 Quotes on 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.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• 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.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• 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.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• 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.

  Author: J. Priestley

• There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

  Author: Priscilla Presley

• What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

  Author: Kurt Masur

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

  Author: Susan Lucci

• Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

  Author: Penelope Keith

• Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

  Author: Jonathan Katz

• 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.

  Author: Gwen John

• 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.

  Author: Tom Hooper

• 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.

  Author: Dorothy Hamill

• 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.

  Author: Michael Hall

• I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

  Author: Clea Duvall

• Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

  Author: Andre Dubus

• I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

  Author: Stephanie Beacham

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