Definition of Self-Conscious
Self-conscious
Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self.
Conscious of one's self as an object of the observation of others; as, the speaker was too self-conscious.
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Self-Conscious Quotations
We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
Kanye West
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury
Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.
Kate Moss
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
Henry James
I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?
Patty Duke
When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
Anita Desai
I was always a self-conscious person.
Elia Kazan
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.
David Cronenberg
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
Richard Russo
I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.
Peter Steele
Self-Conscious Translations
self-conscious in Danish is sky
self-conscious in Dutch is bedeesd, timide, bevangen, blo
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