Quotes about Inhibition

The inability to allow a talent to do what he feels is going to inhibit his production. Always.

I never had the nerve to go up to him. I was quite afraid that if I tried to say, Hello, Reverend Thomas, I would choke on the sin of mocking him.

Growing up, I held back a lot in fear of looking silly or thinking I wouldn't make it.

Resistance is the enemy within.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'

Libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint.

It is the process of mis-education that inhibits the full potential of a nation.

Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.

don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.

We're so obsessed about the risk of shining brightly that we've traded in everything that matters to avoid it.

No—the trampling, driving extravert, the one who always feels impelled to Do Something and is never inhibited by doubts or qualms, by sympathy or sensibility.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.