Best 23 quotes in «self conscious quotes» category

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Stop being self-conscious when you write. You are the expert about the world you are creating, no one else. So be bold and write on.

Never let others upset or belittle you without your approval. It is crucial to be self-conscious at all times because with so much going on, you cannot afford to have others in charge of your own life.

There is a very fine line (almost transparent), between cordiality and hypocrisy--knowing to distinguish them is a gift of Gods.

You looked strange climbing in the tree like that." Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fingers, her sudden self-consciousness feeling foreign and strange to her. "I didn't do it to look nice," she said. "But you do care." Tiger Lily studied the tree and decided if she did care, she would now choose not to. "I don't," she said. "All girls do," he added, pushing the point. "You must not know many girls." "I know a million," Peter said, dark and serious. There was a long awkward silence, but if Peter regretted his words, I couldn't tell.

I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.

Only after becoming self-conscious can we open the doors of universal consciousness.

The broth was nearly clear and colorless, singing with notes of the sea- and Belle had never actually been to the sea. When she broke her bread to dip, the crust shattered, the crumb inside moist to the point of almost being a custard. The terrine was so rich she managed only one tiny demitasse spoonful. She and her father didn't eat fancily but they ate well enough and even had meat once or twice a week. The herbs that still flourished in her mother's garden spiced up dishes more than it seemed like they should have. They supped well, like all Frenchmen and women. But even Christmas was nothing compared to this. Belle suddenly realized she was shoveling it all in like a character from one of those stories who was tricked into eating magic food until he exploded or grew too large to escape. And a slightly more down-to-earth part of her spoke up warningly, in what she liked to pretend was her mother's voice: You are, at the very least, going to have an extremely upset stomach from this rich new food.

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.

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.

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.

But being a teenager is one good day of being a superhero, followed by a hundred days of being self-conscious about every little damn thing. It's one big, selfish moment when you don't give a shit about other people's opinions, but you still want your friends to love who you are and what you do.

I was always a self-conscious person.

A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites.

Deep in the shadows, a hot ember from a lit cigarette glows. For a brief second, the light illumines the face of the famous chimp, Bosco, champion bicyclist. He stares back, emotionless, unimpressed. His relentless gaze makes me uncomfortable, self-conscious, intimidated.

...don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...

God knows your every need.

High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.

His limp had been very pronounced that day, and he had been self-conscious, feeling—as he often did—as if he were playing the role of an impoverished governess in a Dickensian drama.

In her 20′s, a woman’s breasts double her self-esteem. In her 40′s, they halve it.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that it was like the almost constant burden of some vague grief. And bound up with it all was an implacable sense of personal duty and the grim determination to present himself at his best, to conceal his frailties by any means possible, and to keep up appearances. It had all contributed to making his existence what it was: artificial, self-conscious, and forced—until every word, every gesture, the slightest deed in the presence of others had become a taxing and grueling part in a play.

It's amazing what the possiblity of romance can do to you. I'm self-conscious now in ways I never was before.