Quote by Susan Cain Download Open image ““People who pass us on the street can’t know that we’re clever and charming unless we look it.”” — Susan Cain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“When I say a clever thing to people they look startled and uncomfortable. I should just like to be quiet for years and years… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“We think we’re so clever. And yet we’re always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
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“Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.” — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“I have considered myself cleverer than any of the people surrounding me, and sometimes, would you belive it, have been positively ashamed of it.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The clever people likes foolish because they knows how to take advantage of their foolishness.” — Sammy Toora Copy Share Image
“Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.” — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
“Proverbs from the East: The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. Even though I make no special attempt to observe the discipline of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum. Our place on this continuum influences our choice of friends and mates, and how we make conversation,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good ideas,” he… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“He believes, as most of us do, that venting anger lets off steam. The “catharsis hypothesis”—that aggression builds up inside us until it’s healthily… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Soft power is not limited to moral exemplars like Mahatma Gandhi. Consider, for example, the much-ballyhooed excellence of Asians in fields like math and… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Social anxiety disorder”—which essentially means pathological shyness—is now thought to afflict nearly one in five of us. The most recent version of the Diagnostic… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“So when introverts assume the observer role, as when they write novels, or contemplate unified field theory- or fall quiet at dinner parties- they’re… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Osborn’s theory had great impact, and company leaders took up brainstorming with enthusiasm. To this day, it’s common for anyone who spends time in… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“But as the word satyagraha implies, Gandhi’s passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image