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The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
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In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" -…
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Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value…
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took…
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We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.
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Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in…
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[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys…
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The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand,…
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Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases ... If you have talented and motivated people, they should be…
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I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing ... I like to think before I speak (softly).
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You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's…
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There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work.…
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One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.
— Edwin Moses
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Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a…
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I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find…
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I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.
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Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and…
— David Morrissey
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
— Ford Frick
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In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than…
— Jacques Barzun
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