America Quote by Laurie Helgoe

Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

— Susan Cain

“The British attendees reported a similar difficulty identifying introverts in America because “U.S. Introverts exhibited behavior that in the United Kingdom was associated with…

— Laurie Helgoe

Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or…

— Mark Frost

I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal…

— Criss Jami

We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of…

— Susan Cain

America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast…

— Dinesh D'Souza

We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

— Lisa Ling

“Because extroversion lines up so well with American values, we introverts often deprive ourselves of what we most enjoy and thrive on. So, for…

— Laurie Helgoe

I think that every individual is a microcosm of the culture that they're born into. They reflect the anxieties, insecurities, and strengths of that…

— Haroon Moghul

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do…

— Louis Kronenberger

Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

— Laurie Helgoe

There's a distinct unease about Americans when they are outside the United States. I can't say quite what it is, but they are easily…

— Lawrence Osborne