Self Conscious Quotes

216 Self Conscious quotes by 196 unique authors

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis. — Emily Procter
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as… — Pierre Loti
When I was younger, I didn't even know how to walk. I was so self-conscious. — Lil B
Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe… — Owen Gingerich
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is… — Ernest Becker
My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though. — Richard Griffiths
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself,… — Sri Aurobindo
I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a… — Erma Bombeck
Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments. — Beatrice Warde
There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in… — Walther Rathenau
In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool on my sunburned… — Peter Matthiessen
Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance… — Trevanian
I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was… — Jerry Harrison
I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin gods who stand… — Sam Peckinpah
Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll…… — Unknown Author
We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God’s very self. — Richard Rohr
Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman to the world… — Hilary Thayer Hamann
As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our… — Alvin Lustig
A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading. — Fairfax M. Cone
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels… — Richard Russo
You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself. — Peter Matthiessen
Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust. — Peter Gabriel
I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to… — Swami Vivekananda
Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their performances while winning… — Timothy Gallwey
It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing… — Bernadette Roberts

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