One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards. — Susan Cain Business Copy Share Image
...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around. — Susan Cain Competence Copy Share Image
“We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.” — Susan Cain Courage Copy Share Image
It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. — Susan Cain Boundaries Copy Share Image
We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and… — Susan Cain Class Copy Share Image
“The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.” — Susan Cain Flow Copy Share Image
“People who tend to [suppress their negative emotions] regularly,” concludes Grob, “might start to see the world in a more negative light.” — Susan Cain Negative emotions Copy Share Image
I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing ... I like to think before I speak (softly). — Susan Cain Communication Copy Share Image
“People who pass us on the street can’t know that we’re clever and charming unless we look it.” — Susan Cain Charming Copy Share Image
We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run. — Susan Cain Business Copy Share Image
What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were… — Susan Cain Action Copy Share Image
“That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when… — Susan Cain Night Copy Share Image
Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases ... If you have talented and motivated people, they should be… — Susan Cain Be encouraged Copy Share Image
“I’m prone to wild flights of self-doubt, but I also have a deep well of courage in my own convictions. I feel… — Susan Cain Courage Copy Share Image
Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New… — Susan Cain Achievement Copy Share Image
“The risk with our students is that they’re very good at getting their way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going the right… — Susan Cain Education 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 Being real Copy Share Image
“Restorative niche' is Professor Little's term for the place you go when you want to return to your true self. It can… — Susan Cain Niche Copy Share Image
“The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they’re highly empathic. It’s as if they have thinner boundaries separating… — Susan Cain Personal problems Copy Share Image
“Respect for individual human personality has with us reached its lowest point," observed one intellectual in 1921, "and it is delightfully ironical… — Susan Cain Human personality Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain once told a story about a man who scoured the planet looking for the greatest general who ever lived. When… — Susan Cain Gone to heaven Copy Share Image
“The upsides of the high-reactive temperament have been documented in exciting research that scientists are only now beginning to pull together. One… — Susan Cain Nature of man Copy Share Image
“The Extrovert Ideal has been documented in many studies, though this research has never been grouped under a single name. Talkative people,… — Susan Cain Communication 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 Adults Copy Share Image
“Mike sounded dismissive of Western communication styles, but he admitted that he sometimes wished he could be noisy and uninhibited himself. “They’re… — Susan Cain Comfort zone Copy Share Image
“Nor are introverts necessarily shy. Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that… — Susan Cain Fear Copy Share Image
we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally — Susan Cain Ears Copy Share Image
“Don’t mistake assertiveness or eloquence for good ideas.” — Susan Cain Assertiveness Copy Share Image