Matthew Hussey Quotes

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me.

I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

Everyone is insecure, especially in high school.

You don't realize you're vying for the approval of everyone so much until being yourself is not approved of.

All my life - middle school, high school - I've always been worried what are people going to think.

I do care about what people think about me sometimes, and sometimes it affects me in a negative way.

Looking back on my early romantic life, I was more worried about what impression I made on my dates than what I thought of them. I would approach them as though they were job interviews, trying to wow the man so that he would ask me out again and I got the 'job.'

I want people to like me and, if there's any doubt, I sort of worry.

You ask if you look good and you know people are lying. It was a depressing thing to experience. I was going to these parties where I used to be ignored and then all of a sudden people are paying attention to me.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

I was a very, very shy, insecure teenager.

As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.

I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.

Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?