Best Self Conscious Quotations
216 Self Conscious quotes by 196 unique authors
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Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.
— Andy Murray
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Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
— Emile M. Cioran
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If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in…
— Florence Welch
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If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.
— Marissa Mayer
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Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory…
— Cyril Connolly
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I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will…
— Ella Fitzgerald
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To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story…
— Maureen Howard
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I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.
— Matthew Lewis
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I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.
— Mary-Louise Parker
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I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green…
— Eddie Redmayne
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Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no…
— Raymond Chandler
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I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness…
— China Mieville
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Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty…
— Stevie Smith
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I was always a self-conscious person.
— Elia Kazan
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I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
— Vincent Cassel
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I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.
— Jonathan Ames
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To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.
— Mark Batterson
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A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into…
— Billy Campbell
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I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I…
— Sofia Coppola
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When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious,…
— Anita Desai
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I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze…
— Ben Fountain
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I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.
— Terry Gross
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As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not…
— Freddie Highmore
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