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Never let shyness conquer your mind.
Arfa Karim
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Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.
Steven Morrissey
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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
Don Rickles
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Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.
Susan Cain
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It is only through timidity that states are lost.
Voltaire
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Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
Susan Cain
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introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness
Steve Martin
12.
If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.
Robert Breault
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What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
Kurt Masur
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Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
Saadi
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My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
17.
I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.
Stephanie Beacham
18.
I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.
Gerald Stern
20.
A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.
Vernon Lee
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Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.
Susan Cain
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I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.
Amy Bloom
25.
Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.
Daniel Radcliffe
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I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.
Steven Morrissey
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I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.
Mahatma Gandhi
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And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.
Paul Merton