[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
“The JP preference does show itself in simple and accessible reactions. It serves admirably as the fourth dichotomy if one detail is… — 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.… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
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
Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types,… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
“If you are the sensing type, the intuitive’s words may seem to ignore or even contradict facts you know to be true, but don’t… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
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