“If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“It was always that way for me. After I opened myself to someone, I needed a few minutes to close down again,… — Dia Reeves Copy Share Image
“What he wanted was to find that world-within-the-world where he could be himself by himself.” — Charlie Lovett Copy Share Image
“I've seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe dinna make such good matches… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating. — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of… — Derrek Lee Copy Share Image
“The deeper an introvert’s relationship with God is and the more it grows, the greater the impact he or she will have… — Mike Bechtle Copy Share Image
“I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I'm probably an overcompensating introvert. I live in Hollywood, but I don't go to parties where I have to work the room.… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Labels have always represented limitation, conformity, and narrow-mindedness to me since the human personality is multi-faceted and continuously evolving. Perhaps that is… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet, but I'm really not quiet. I… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
“To sell successfully, you don't have to be aggressive. You don't need to be anything other than you. You just need to… — Matthew Pollard Copy Share Image
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative. — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
“Introverts can leverage their unique strengths to build a powerful personal brand.” — Goldie Chan Copy Share Image
“In a world dominated by extroverts and exhibitionism, the quiet ones make the loudest impact with their silence – it's their superpower” — Brahmanand Savanth Copy Share Image
Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
“Having people in different optimal environments increases the chances of survival of the human race as a whole. It is nature's way… — Marti Olsen Laney Copy Share Image
I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts… — Jessica Brown Findlay 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 might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat… — Vladimir Guerrero Copy Share Image
“Every introvert alive knows the exquisite pleasure of stepping from the clamor of a party into the bathroom and closing the door” — Sophia Dembling 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
Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It might not look like it but I'm quite shy. I'm an introvert. That's the way I am, how I feel. — Victor Valdes Copy Share Image
as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I am essentially very shy. Which, I guess, is why I'm very good at not being shy. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Ironically, becoming known publicly was my biggest fear. And it was partly because I'm on the whole a fairly shy person. — Katharine Gun Copy Share Image
“The introvert is pressured daily, almost from the moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world.” — Marti Olsen Laney 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
Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
To an extrovert, living alone is hell. To an introvert, living alone is paradise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
