"We've known about the transcendent power of solitude……" — Susan Cain

"We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it."

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125 Quotes by Susan Cain

Susan Cain has 125 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their…
Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything…
Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they…
We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.
Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were…
[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all…
The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to…
Studies have shown that performance gets worse as group size increases ... If you have talented and motivated people, they…
I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing ... I like to think before I speak (softly).
You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or…
There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.

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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses… — Emilie Autumn
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the… — Lord Acton
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;… — Cleveland Abbe
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty… — Charles Baudelaire
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. — John Berger
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the… — Annie Besant
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over… — Andrea Bocelli
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the… — James Buchan
Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of… — Julie Burchill

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