Dennis Prager Quotes

Well, that embarrassment gene, I don't really have a lot of it.

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.

It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

I almost tell him that I'd never be able to do something like that, just take out my instrument and begin playing on a street corner. But it feels to personal. Yes, I'm shy, but why bring it to his attention? I'm too shy to talk about how shy I am.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

I'm painfully shy.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.

My forte is awkwardness.

I was very shy. I'm still shy.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

I am shy - going to parties kills me.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

I find just being on set embarrassing. Mortifying. And that's with all my clothes on.

I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me or judging me.

I don't really experience much embarrassment.

For years I would sit on the side when my friends swam in the water. There is no feeling worse than that, to be afraid of what people will say about you, or to be embarrassed by who you are and what you are.