One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards. — Susan Cain Business Copy Share Image
“Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race.” — Susan Cain Racism Copy Share Image
“America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality” — Susan Cain Culture-identity Copy Share Image
One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards. — Susan Cain Business Copy Share Image
Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything. —ROBERT RUBIN,” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country... — Susan Cain Country Copy Share Image
“Big Five traits: Introversion-Extroversion; Agreeableness; Openness to Experience; Conscientiousness; and Emotional Stability.” — Susan Cain Emotional stability Copy Share Image
Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be… — Susan Cain Introversion Copy Share Image
What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is… — Susan Cain Disapproval Copy Share Image
“Conversely, high-reactive children may be more likely to develop into artists and writers and scientists and thinkers because their aversion to novelty… — Susan Cain Art Copy Share Image
“We know that there are physiological limits on who we are and how we act. But should we attempt to manipulate our… — Susan Cain 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 Concentration Copy Share Image
“They like to read; for them there’s nothing more exciting than ideas. And some of this has to do with how they… — Susan Cain Books Copy Share Image
Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it. If this requires public speaking… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
...remember the dangers of the New Groupthink. If it's creativity you're after, ask your employees to solve problems alone before sharing their… — Susan Cain Chance Copy Share Image
“Even though we can reach for the outer limits of our temperaments, it can often be better to situate ourselves squarely inside… — Susan Cain Comfort zone 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 Communication Copy Share Image
“In fact, the very thing that many high-reactives hate most about blushing— its uncontrollability— is what makes it so socially useful. “Because… — Susan Cain Blushing Copy Share Image
“at the height of the crash. “Each time someone at the table pressed for more leverage and more risk, the next few… — Susan Cain Customer Copy Share Image
“A mountain of recent data on open-plan offices from many different industries corroborates the results of the games. Open-plan offices have been… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings. Although flow does… — Susan Cain Flow Copy Share Image
“she knew that she was just doing what you learn to do naturally as a quiet person in a loudmouth world.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some it’s a Broadway spotlight;” — Susan Cain Life Copy Share Image
