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Personality Quotes by Susan Cain
- I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.
- 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…
- Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.
- We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.
- Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives…
- We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.
- 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…
- Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower…
- America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's…
- 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.…
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