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Shyness Quotes

Never let shyness conquer your mind.

Never let shyness conquer your mind.

"Arfa Karim Randhawa Wins MCP – Interview". arfakarim.wordpress.com. January 14, 2012.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

Daily Mail (UK), June 27, 1988.

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

"The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.

introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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 (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.55, Courier Corporation

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.203, Transaction Publishers

I have seldom been described as shy.

Interview with Jennifer Levitsky, www.bookreporter.com. April 28, 1998.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

Vernon Lee (1929). “A Vernon Lee Anthology: Selections from the Earlier Works”

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.25, Broadway Books