Admire Quote by Walter Kirn

“fear of being unmasked as the incompetent you “really” are is so common that it actually has a clinical name: impostor syndrome.”

— Megan McArdle

“The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval.”

— Manning Brennan

Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that…

— Pema Chodron

“at that moment experienced the painful internal feeling of that peculiar spedes of shame, which well-constructed minds feel when they see others express a…

— Walter Scott

“A wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can be neatly avoided by following a single precept in life: Do not lie.”

— Sam Harris

'Imposter Syndrome' is the feeling of wearing a mask and playing a role that one does not feel at home in. It is when…

— Luvvie Ajayi

“The agony of this chronic stage of being cannot be endured for long. At the deepest level, toxic shame triggers our basic automatic defensive…

— John Bradshaw

Normally we hide those things from others for which we are embarrassed and which we think are not worth and than I understood why…

— Senoraroy

I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

— Frances Moore Lappé

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

— Penelope Wilton

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

— George Horace Lorimer

We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we…

— Walter Kirn