A Quote by Clea Duvall

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

Clea Duvall

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Better Feel Gotten Making People Shyness Uncomfortable

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Clea Duvall
American - Actress
Born: September 25, 1977

Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

Erin McKeown

The biggest compliments I've gotten have been from people who've seen the film Compliance at festivals and have said, "You know, I fully connected with these people. The movie made me very uncomfortable because I totally can see how this or that situation happened." They're, for lack of a better term, picking up what I was putting down. For me, it's very empowering to feel like we made something interesting.

Craig Zobel

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.

Steve Coogan

The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.

Mike White

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

Philip Zimbardo

I do like making people feel uncomfortable - it's separating the wheat from the chaff.

Michaela Coel

At one time or another the more fortunate among us make three startling discoveries. Discovery number one: Each one of us has, in varying degree, the power to make others feel better or worse. Discovery two: Making others feel better is much more fun than making them feel worse. Discovery three: Making others feel better generally makes us feel better.

Laura Huxley

If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel uncomfortable. I think if you're starting to feel uncomfortable with something when you're writing it, that's the reason really to push on with it.

Irvine Welsh

Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.

Dorothy Sarnoff

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.

Carre Otis

You go through pain. You feel uncomfortable, uncomfortable, uncomfortable until you change. I acquired a different outlook.

Gerry Cooney

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

Susan Cain

We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people in the band for periods also keeps it from going stale.