When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Some people are introverts and if they don't have enough time for themselves, they don't feel right. And extroverts don't feel right… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Introverts are generally more sensitive to low-intensity stimuli - they are mentally alerted to inputs that extroverts may miss. — Laurie Helgoe 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
Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it. — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Before they can grin there fake smiles, I mumble something about a toilet, laugh a second too late at some joke, and… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my… — Jeff Sampson Copy Share Image
I tend to be more of an introvert when I'm traveling. I do a lot of people-watching and espresso-drinking. — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
“She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If the extrovert is trying to "cheer up" the introvert - extroverts are programmed to seek social rewards! - he or she… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making words do a few things. I see enough of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
