"Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is……" — Susan Cain
"Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love."
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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 Directed Quotes
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The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for…
— John Adams
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly…
— Harry Browne
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America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them…
— George W. Bush
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When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
— Tadao Ando
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our…
— Albert Einstein
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Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice…
— Nhat Hanh
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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised…
— John Dewey
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised,…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because…
— Barack Obama
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
— Albert Einstein
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