"Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was……" — Susan Cain
"Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding."
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125 Quotes by Susan Cain
Susan Cain has 125 quotes on this site.
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The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
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In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their…
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Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything…
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they…
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We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.
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Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were…
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[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all…
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The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to…
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Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases ... If you have talented and motivated people, they…
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I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing ... I like to think before I speak (softly).
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You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or…
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There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.
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More Breeding Quotes
This quote is filed under Breeding Quotes,
one of 174 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or…
— Van Wyck Brooks
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The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
— Luther Burbank
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
— Lord Chesterfield
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and…
— William Penn
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Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like…
— Jean Anouilh
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