Introversion Quotes
Collection of top 72 famous quotes about Introversion
Introversion Quotes & Sayings
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One of the ways I know I shouldn't be online is when I'm looking to get something that I already have in abundance as a child of God.
— Sammy Rhodes
Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.
— Alexandra Robbins
This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
There are two distinct groups of people in the world: the ones who tell stories, and those who pay attention.
— Daniel Goncalves
The comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation
— Marcel Proust
Introverts tend to avoid small talk. We'd rather talk about something meaningful than fill the air with chatter just to hear ourselves make noise.
— Jenn Granneman
I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
Similarly, a Solo Date is an outing with yourself to satisfy some of your introvert cravings. And it is a delicious treat.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
It is impossible to fully and fairly understand introversion without looking inside. We aren't just going away, we're going toward something.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
Ultimately I found my community by pursuing what I loved: writing, acting, art, coffeehouses.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
Beware of extroverts in retreat center clothing!
— Laurie A. Helgoe
I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.
— Laurie Helgoe
Where else but cyberspace does the introvert have the opportunity to start in our comfort zone of written communication and talk later?
— Laurie A. Helgoe
Solitude is not lack.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.
— Irvine Welsh
Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
Recognition is what you feel when a friend sums up exactly what you're feeling, when an author gives you the right words, when someone "gets" you.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
If you retreat in response to desire rather than deprivation, the deprivation may never come.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
Introverts don't see life as one big cocktail party. We're content with just a few meaningful relationships.
— Jenn Granneman
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
— Soren Kierkegaard
One of the teens I worked with told me about how she loves to take tests, because it is quiet and everyone is occupying their own space.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
In the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but never in reality.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I like her. She's restful.
— Jo Walton
The best-adjusted people are the'psychologically patriotic,' who are glad to be what they are. — Isabel Briggs Myers
Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device.
— Joseph Campbell
Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.
— Jenn Granneman
It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
— Wallace Stegner
We cannot find freedom in our introversion until we embrace our primary identities as sons and daughters of God.
— Adam S. McHugh
Where is privacy, if not in the mind?
— Annie Dillard
A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter.
— Allen Steele
The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
— Susan Cain
There's nothing more exciting than ideas.
— Susan Cain
A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.
— Joyce Rachelle
At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability.
— Susan Cain
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
— Ross Macdonald
I prefer to interact with people one-on-one. Any more than that, and the dynamic becomes competitive.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring ...
— Andre Gide
As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.
— Jenn Granneman
Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you "too much" in some ways and "not enough" in others.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.
— Nicholas Dawidoff
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We know we only have so much energy for reaching out; if we're going to invest, we want it to be good.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
When we take into consideration the needs of both ourselves and others, we communicate honestly, compassionately and effectively.
— Aletheia Luna
QUIET IS MIGHT. SOLITUDE IS STRENGTH.
INTROVERSION IS POWER. — Laurie A. Helgoe
Many introverts don't feel as if they know enough about a subject until they know almost everything.
— Marti Olsen Laney
I'm going inside of myself and never coming out.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
— George Eliot
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
— Criss Jami
Efforts to make work fun only annoy most of us, especially the introvert.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life.
— Maureen Corrigan
A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.
— Philip Zaleski
I'm okay, you're okay-in small doses.
— Jonathan Rauch
Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.
— Carrie Fisher