“While the introvert is reflecting on the question (thinking first), the extrovert takes this as an invitation to fill the void (talking… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think more than being a woman is the fact that i'm an introvert. In the environment I work in people forget… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
I don't have many friends in the television industry, as I am an introvert who likes her own set of friends. I… — Kratika Sengar Copy Share Image
“An introverted woman spends hours contemplating a thought or observing a pattern in her life. She turns it over in her mind… — Adam McHugh Copy Share Image
“In a state of flow, you’re neither bored nor anxious, and you don’t question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“The archetypal extrovert prefers action to contemplation, risk-taking to heed-taking, certainty to doubt. He favors quick decisions, even at the risk of… — Susan Cain 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
“Introverts are naturally more sensitive because they don’t need a ton of dopamine, the “feel-good” neurotransmitter that your brain produces in response… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
“I had become awkward and tried my best to avoid everyone. I hated attention, people asking me questions or putting me in… — Giovanna Fletcher Copy Share Image
“If you're an introvert, you also know that the bias against quiet can cause deep psychic pain. As a child you might… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I can be a different person at different moments. I may sound chatty and friendly but that could really be a reserved… — Soha Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“We may have, she suggests, a thin boundary between our conscious and unconscious minds, living with one foot in the real world… — Sophia Dembling Copy Share Image
“There are times i wish i was a master magician so i could disappear into the folds of time, without consequence, without… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“Betty realized that when it came to relationships with other human beings, she would always feel alone. And yet there was this… — Heather Babcock Copy Share Image
“He looked distraught, though perhaps he always looked like that, given that he didn’t eat enough or sleep enough or witness sunlight… — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
“They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Shrinking in a corner, pressed into the wall; do they know I'm present, am I here at all? Is there a written… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
When I was at the Performance Center, I was super hated for probably two or three months because I'm a quiet guy.… — Eli Drake 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
“Someone who is relatively more introverted may wish to perfect his act before stepping before the limelight. A more extroverted person may… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I've spent time with Abhinav Bindra. He is an introvert. He is quite restrained and does not get carried away by his… — Harshvardhan Kapoor Copy Share Image
A shy kid might look longingly at other kids playing in the schoolyard, afraid and unsure about how to approach them, but… — 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 a pathology. Introverts living… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“Sitting in a corner, I live like a toad Oh! How I love my room: my tiny abode! Here I wake up;… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I am as it is a very shy person, so for me to be able to have something bright and intelligent to… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
“Because extroversion lines up so well with American values, we introverts often deprive ourselves of what we most enjoy and thrive on.… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
My mom says I was an introvert. I never saw myself that way, but I was always focused. I didn't spend a… — Jason Derulo Copy Share Image
“when introverts assume the observer role, as when they write novels, or contemplate unified field theory—or fall quiet at dinner parties—they’re not… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I think Hamlet, as much as he loves his privacy and is kind of an introvert, he's a very functional introvert. When… — Chukwudi Iwuji Copy Share Image
“Introverts are often caught between the need to create a persona in order to relate to others and the need to stay… — Lenore Thomson Copy Share Image
“Ambiverts typically . . . • Can process information both internally and externally. They need time to contemplate on their own, but… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“But the most important thing to know about being an introvert is that there’s nothing wrong with you. You’re not broken because… — Jenn Granneman Copy Share Image
Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
People that want to be in the tabloids will get into the tabloids. I just stay home and don't go out much.… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
