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  • I'm okay, you're okay - in small doses.

    "Caring for Your Introvert". www.theatlantic.com. March 2003.
  • His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

    Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.625, Routledge
  • Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

    Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK
  • Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.

    Hate   People   Introvert  
    Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.146, Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.

    Party   Believe   Wine  
  • Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

    Party   Saint   Introvert  
    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.119, Criss Jami
  • The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

    Energy   Waste   Talent  
    "'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking,' by Susan Cain". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 26, 2012.
  • When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.37, Criss Jami
  • Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.

    Strong   Party   Home  
  • Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you 'too much' in some ways and 'not enough' in others.

    People   Too Much   Way  
  • The physical basis for sociopathy is approximately 50 percent inheritable, which sounds more dramatic than it probably is, because most personality characteristics that psychologists test for and study the genetics of are about 50 percent inheritable. Introversion, extroversion, it turns out that they're about 50 percent inheritable, which means that somehow sociopathy is physical, it's organic.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

  • We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

    Class   Two   Personality  
    "Giving Introverts Permission to Be Themselves". Interview with Zosia Bielski, www.theglobeandmail.com. January 26, 2012.
  • Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

    Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.265, Broadway Books
  • The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

  • Extroverts want us to have fun, because they assume we want what they want. And sometimes we do. But "fun" itself is a "bright" word, the kind of word that comes with flashing lights and an exclamation point! One of Merriam-Webster's definitions of "fun" is "violent or excited activity or argument." The very word makes me want to sit in a dimly lit room with lots of pillows-by myself.

  • It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

    People   Tragedy   World  
    Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.137, Broadway Books
  • To a greater or lesser extent there goes on in every person a struggle between two forces: the longing for privacy and the urge to go places: the introversion, interest directed within oneself toward one's own inner life of vigorous thought and fancy; and extroversion, interest directed outward, toward the external world of people and tangible values.

    Struggle   Journey   Two  
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Fredson Bowers (1981). “Lectures on Russian literature”, Harcourt
  • For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.

    "Caring for Your Introvert" by Jonathan Rauch, www.theatlantic.com. March 2003.
  • [On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.

    Summer   Mother   Long  
  • We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short on explication, but its stories suggest that introversion plays yin to the yang of extroversion; that the medium is not always the message; and that people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well.

    Book   Thoughtful   Play  
    Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.61, Broadway Books
  • Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

    "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.
  • In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.95, Criss Jami
  • All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

  • Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.

    Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.255, Broadway Books
  • Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.

    Men   World   Extroverts  
    Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.4, Broadway Books
  • Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

    Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.19, Penguin UK
  • 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 (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.4, Broadway Books
  • My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.

  • Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas.

    Strong   Party   Home  
    "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking". Book by Susan Cain, January 24, 2012.
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