Soccer Mommy Quotes

I was extremely shy, but since college, I think I have opened up and gained confidence. I find it much easier to make friends, I let myself go a bit more.

I totally lucked out by meeting a lot of amazing people. I guess it stems from going to shows and being confident enough to meet people and be able to talk to them like a normal person rather than have my head down all the time.

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.

You have to get over being shy, and just be comfortable with yourself, and I think that for me, if I'd stayed in a small town, I'd be a different person.

I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

A big part of why I wanted to go to college is to meet people and make friends.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Going to parties by myself? Yeah, I don't know if it's super cool or super uncool. I haven't decided yet.

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

I have a really hard time meeting people, so I wanted to take classes to get out of my social shell. Eventually, I opened up and realized, 'Wow, I really enjoy this.'

Even when you're out with someone, you need to get out of your head. And you can try exercises by putting yourself in situations where you may not feel completely comfortable, like going to a gallery opening on your own.

What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.

If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be 'fixed', like being shy is a bad thing.

Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.

I'm so socially awkward. I really had to put myself out there and meet new people.

You can't be afraid of rejection. That was one of my problems when I was approaching girls: I was always afraid of what they were going to say to me.