Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat. — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right. — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
“they [thinkers] can remember how feeling types respond to sympathy and appreciation; a little of either will greatly tone down a necessary criticism, but… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
“Perception without judgment is spineless; judgment with no perception is blind. Introversion lacking any extraversion is impractical; extraversion with no introversion is superficial.” — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
“The second follow-up, which examined changes in specialty, showed how often doctors of each type changed to a more typical specialty (to one more… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
“Thinking or feeling judgment is vitally necessary, and introverted intuitives must develop it for themselves, because their utter conviction of their intuition’s validity makes… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share
By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and more of… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
“It follows that these people [INTJs] cannot be successfully coerced. They will not even be told anything without their permission, but they will accept… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
“THE CONDUCT OF extraverts is based on the outer situation. If they are thinkers, they tend to criticize or analyze or organize it; feeling… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
“the thinker’s natural process is inappropriate when used in personal relations with feeling types, because it includes a readiness to criticize. Criticism is of… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
“The satisfaction earned by the striving can be whatever furnishes the strongest incentive to the child, for example, extra pleasures or possessions for a… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
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