Self-consciousness kills communication.
Rick StevesMots clés advice confidence communication speech travel self-consciousness
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Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
Mignon McLaughlinMots clés doubt self-consciousness
It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.
David SedarisMots clés humor self-consciousness
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.
Stephen FryMots clés books laughter philosophy literature language shame isolation self-image depression social-anxiety self-loathing body-image self-consciousness insecurity
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
SaadiMots clés beauty self-perception self-consciousness
I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when you are lost in a hard challenge, or when an artist or a craftsman becomes one with the brush or the tool. It happens sometimes while you’re playing sports, or listening to music or lost in a story, or to some people when they feel enveloped by God’s love. And it happens most when we connect with other people. I’ve come to think that happiness isn’t really produced by conscious accomplishments. Happiness is a measure of how thickly the unconscious parts of our minds are intertwined with other people and with activities. Happiness is determined by how much information and affection flows through us covertly every day and year.
David BrooksMots clés consciousness happiness affection information self-consciousness accomplishments connections involvement
After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. "Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's...
Philip PullmanMots clés self-consciousness
And down I went to fetch my bride:
But, Alice, you were ill at ease;
This dress and that by turns you tried,
Too fearful that you should not please.
I loved you better for your fears,
I knew you could not look but well;
And dews, that would have fall'n in tears,
I kiss'd away before they fell.
Mots clés tears comfort wedding fears self-consciousness dresses
I suddenly realize that I'm naked, which shouldn't bother me since it's the phone, but for some reason it does.
"How's it hanging?" Kyra asks and now I think I'm blushing. It's just an expression, but jeez!
Mots clés humour funny nudity self-consciousness
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.
Lucy GrealyMots clés life torture sharp self-consciousness device
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