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Introvert Quotes by Susan Cain
- Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.
- Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas,
- [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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things…
- I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.
- Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.
- The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It’s a constant tension for…
- Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
- Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She…
- Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who…
- ...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…
- Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not…
- There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
- 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.
- What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer…
- Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas can be shared…
- Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe
- Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book.…
- Everyone shines, given the right lighting.
- In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that…
- Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
More Introvert Quotes
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the… — Hilaire Belloc
- I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up! — Ingrid Bergman
- The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this… — Bill Bradley
- If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a… — John Bunyan
- Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. — William S. Burroughs
- In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. — Albert Camus
- I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. — Agatha Christie
- I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him,… — Bertrand Russell
- Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye… — John Green