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Introversion Quotes by Susan Cain
- The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
- Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they…
- Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.
- A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment…
- All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and…
- We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.
- ...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No…
- It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.
- We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short…
- Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas.…
- 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 in…
- Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.
- Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion…
- Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what…
More Introversion Quotes
- The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness. — Susan Cain
- Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity. — Pearl S. Buck
- The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- 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
- Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power. — Laurie Helgoe
- The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion. — B.F. Skinner
- Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently… — Susan Cain