Extremes Quote by Pearl S. Buck

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

— 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

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between…

— Susan Cain

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.

— 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.

— 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

“Introversion is often wrongly linked with shyness, and although social events are not for everyone and might leave an introvert overstimulated and exhausted, social…

— Meik Wiking

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

— Susan Cain

My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.

— Carrie Fisher

Introverts are generally more sensitive to low-intensity stimuli - they are mentally alerted to inputs that extroverts may miss.

— Laurie Helgoe

Some introverts are actually brilliant extraverts. They're just afraid of judgement.

— Modestas Rinkevicius