The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about.… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
The best gift you can give yourself is getting over the fear of embarrassment because then you're completely free to try anything. — Jesse Itzler Copy Share Image
I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
We thought why don't we just make ourselves the marks of the show. Have our three friends turn the screws on each… — Joe Gatto Copy Share Image
When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Luckily for [Barack] Obama, the Russians came along and rescued him with this proposal [to confiscate Assad's chemical weapons] which he quickly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Every creative act involves a leap into the void. The leap has to occur at the right moment and yet the time… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
I do like to make people cringe. That discomfort, tension, embarrassment, pain - all of those things interest me, and not through… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
There isn't anybody out there who doesn't have a mental health issue, whether it's depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships.… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
After all, to get the whole universe totally wrong in the face of clear evidence for over 75 years merits monumental embarrassment… — Halton Arp Copy Share Image
What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was… — Al Capp Copy Share Image
“Miss Clerricot blushes most charmingly and raises a hand to cover a portion of her countenance. It is a shame, this ill-feeling… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
“On my way out I didn't look at the dark guy, the suicide bomber, again. I think I didn't look at him… — Assaf Gavron Copy Share Image
“I think the root of embarrassment is feeling totally misunderstood, wanting to explain yourself over and over but knowing that you won't… — Alice Ozma Copy Share Image
“Experience is the best school, Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there, Offering only one lesson called Life, That you could… — Nelson M. Lubao Copy Share Image
Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
“Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
*What happens when me and my mom get bored* Me: *dancing* Mom: What are you doing? Me: I'm dropping it like it's… — Danielle Boyd Copy Share Image
I wish I could go back and re-write my first novel for the first time. Because I really didn't know what I… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not,… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I can barely take the waves of embarrassment that come with watching someone do something so badly. Roseanne Barr… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“However, embarrassment was quickly replaced with a completely different emotion all together when I heard him say the words that I knew… — Karli Perrin Copy Share Image
“The class erupted into noisy laughter and, since I was always, and have always been, determined that merriment should never be seen… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
![“Luckily for [Barack] Obama, the Russians came along and rescued him with this proposal [to confiscate Assad's chemical weapons] which he quickly accepted - it was a way out of the embarrassment of facing likely defeat. They still have the option of bombing if they want to. And incidentally, to add…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e47/noam-chomsky-42_accepted_luckily-for-barack-obama-the-russians-ca_2388051.jpg)
