Brian Tracy Quotes

I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I'm supposed to act the same way they act and I don't know how.

When you're younger, you worry about so many things that you don't need to worry about, like image, appearance.

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

As you get older, you realize you're not that cool. You also realize the people you called posers are just people like you.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

It's odd to look out there and see a bunch of Mini-Mes," says Williams. "You're wondering what possessed them to do such a thing . . . It sort of does a reverse psychology on you. You'd think you'd be like 'Hey, all these people want to look like me. I feel pretty cool.' But actually it makes you feel more self aware and I'm not really fond of that.

So many people are paralyzed by worrying, "What are these people going to think?"

When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.

Most people care what people think about them... we all do.

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

I wish I didn't care about what people say about me, but I do.

My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't.

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.

I was someone that loved to seek attention when I was younger.

I was this very self-conscious, shy person once I hit my teens.

In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent most of my adolescence attempting to keep it a secret from those who might use it as a source of derision. The off-brown collared shirt and forest-green sash were not something I would have ever been caught wearing in front of my friends.

I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn't. I wish I could've just let it slide and not cared about it.

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.

There are two kinds of witnesses. One kind is the people that surround you. You are constantly aware that you are being watched, witnessed. With so many eyes watching you, you are reduced to an object... And you are afraid because they may not appreciate you. They may not feed your ego, they may not like you, they may reject you. Now you are in their hands.

I am all the ages I've ever been.