Introvert Quote by 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

“Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of…

— Susan Cain

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.

— Susan Cain

“Our personalities also shape our social styles. Extroverts are the people who will add life to your dinner party and laugh generously at your…

— 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

“The Socially Accessible introvert looks like an extrovert on the outside and sees extroversion as a bar that he or she can never quite…

— Laurie Helgoe

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where…

— Susan Cain

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and…

— Paulo Coelho

While there are relatively few extreme introverts or extroverts, most of us lean in one direction or the other. If we lean more toward…

— Vivek Murthy

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult…

— Neil Peart

“But the most interesting part of Thorne’s experiment was how much the two types appreciated each other. Introverts talking to extroverts chose cheerier topics,…

— 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