“Extroverts are more likely to take a quick-and-dirty approach to problem-solving, trading accuracy for speed, making increasing numbers of mistakes as they… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“We should all look out for cobblers who might have been great generals. Which means focusing on introverted children, whose talents are… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“I need a break after school," she told me later. "School is hard because a lot of people are in the room,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“[P]arents need to step back from their own preferences and see what the world looks like to their quiet children.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Since when is solitude one of the Seven Deadly Sins? But to a fellow evangelical, McHugh's sense of spiritual failure would make… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Proverbs from the East: The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. Even though I make no special attempt to observe the discipline of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum. Our place on this continuum influences our choice of friends and mates, and how we make conversation,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good ideas,” he… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“He believes, as most of us do, that venting anger lets off steam. The “catharsis hypothesis”—that aggression builds up inside us until it’s healthily… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Soft power is not limited to moral exemplars like Mahatma Gandhi. Consider, for example, the much-ballyhooed excellence of Asians in fields like math and… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Social anxiety disorder”—which essentially means pathological shyness—is now thought to afflict nearly one in five of us. The most recent version of the Diagnostic… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“So when introverts assume the observer role, as when they write novels, or contemplate unified field theory- or fall quiet at dinner parties- they’re… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Osborn’s theory had great impact, and company leaders took up brainstorming with enthusiasm. To this day, it’s common for anyone who spends time in… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“But as the word satyagraha implies, Gandhi’s passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
