“Twenty-five years later, I’m still not a huge fan of surprises. This is your brain on introversion.” — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“I prefer to interact with people one-on-one. Any more than that, and the dynamic becomes competitive.” — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“...ultimately I found my community by pursuing what I loved: writing, acting, art, coffeehouses.” — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“If you retreat in response to desire rather than deprivation, the deprivation may never come.” — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.” — Jenn Granneman Copy Share Image
“Now, don't sigh for envy at my week-end; I am sure it is to be dull, my dear, and you know my… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“It would be wise to be concerned about the introvert who is deprived of solitude. Is she neglecting herself due to depression?… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interacting. Extroverts have the opposite preference; they tend… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
When it comes to our relationship with loneliness, specifically, it's important to understand how our relative introversion or extroversion informs our preference… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“If a child stays quiet in the context of extroverted friends, or even prefers time alone, a parent may worry and even… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device. It… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Even though we can reach for the outer limits of our temperaments, it can often be better to situate ourselves squarely inside… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Secondly, extroverts often incorrectly assume that introverts are suffering. Introverts internalize problems; we like to take things inside and work on them… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the entire scale of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Think of a group of Extrovert Moms gathered together at a Little League game, excitedly chatting and enjoying the action. In comes… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“the extrovert assumption is so woven into the fabric of our culture that an employee may suffer reprimands for keeping his door… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“Most of us have had the experience of creating beauty, whether by cleaning a room, planting a bed of flowers or hanging… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“In the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter.” — Allen Steele Copy Share Image
“Where else but cyberspace does the introvert have the opportunity to start in our comfort zone of written communication and talk later?” — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“One of the teens I worked with told me about how she loves to take tests, because it is quiet and everyone… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“And that was true too, that was what the Culverts were like: crucified by their shyness and at the same time contemptuous… — Tessa Hadley Copy Share Image
“Introverts don’t see life as one big cocktail party. We’re content with just a few meaningful relationships.” — Jenn Granneman Copy Share Image
“Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“For introverts, who have limited energy for interaction, we need to be more thoughtful and deliberate about whom we meet—which, happily, is… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I heard, for the first time— nothing. I danced and did somersaults, lay down in a bed of grass, felt the breeze.… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
