Respect Quote by Isabel Briggs Myers

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

— Susan Cain

We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

— Susan Cain

“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 under the…

— Susan Cain

“According to Free Trait Theory, we are born and culturally endowed with certain personality traits—introversion, for example—but we can and do act out of…

— Susan Cain

“Perception without judgment is spineless; judgment with no perception is blind. Introversion lacking any extraversion is impractical; extraversion with no introversion is superficial.”

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“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…

— Susan Cain

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…

— Susan Cain

“According to Free Trait Theory, we are born and culturally endowed with certain personality traits—introversion, for example—but we can and do act out of…

— Susan Cain

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that…

— George Eliot

“No type has everything. The introverts and thinkers, though likely to arrive at the most profound decisions, may have the most difficulty in getting…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“The archetypal extrovert prefers action to contemplation, risk-taking to heed-taking, certainty to doubt. He favors quick decisions, even at the risk of being wrong.…

— Susan Cain

“Although nurture does not change our basic personality type, it can in some ways cloud or impair our ability to accurately perceive our true…

— Anonymous