Introvert Quotes

207 quotes by 126 authors

Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us. — Laurie Helgoe
Introverts keep their best stuff insideâ€”that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvertâ€™s behaviorâ€”and there must be… — Laurie Helgoe
This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise. — Laurie Helgoe
Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.… — Laurie Helgoe
Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture. — Laurie Helgoe
Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future. — Laurie Helgoe
A shy kid might look longingly at other kids playing in the schoolyard, afraid and unsure about how to approach them, but an introvert is… — Laurie Helgoe
Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas, — Susan Cain
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. — Quentin Crisp
[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage… — Susan Cain
For the introvert, conversation can be a very limited forum for self expression. When a song moves you, a writer gets you or a theory… — Laurie Helgoe
Extroverts want us to have fun, because they assume we want what they want. And sometimes we do. But "fun" itself is a "bright" word,… — Laurie Helgoe
The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million,… — Susan Cain
Introverts tend to internalize problems. In other words, we place the source of problems within and blame ourselves. Though introverts may also externalize and see… — Laurie Helgoe
True healing comes from owning and accepting all of life's energies within ourselves....When they are allowed to be expressed, they take their places as important… — Shakti Gawain
Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted, I was serious. — Nelson Mandela
I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life. — Nelson Mandela
I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion,… — Nelson Mandela
I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream… — Sylvia Plath
I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm. — Lee Krasner

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