Introverts Quotes
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I don't know how introverts survived without the Internet. Or with the Internet. Actually, I don't know how we survive at all. It feels impossible.
— Amy Schumer
Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
— Susan Cain
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
Introverts have layered personalities, and they prefer to slowly unpeel the layers as they bond with people over time.
— Adam S. McHugh
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.
— Laurie Helgoe
If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.
— Susan Cain
If you force extroverts to pause, says Newman, they'll do just as well as introverts at the numbers game.
— Susan Cain
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
There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.
— Ruskin Bond
NONLONERS BORROW A term from Jung and call us introverts. They think it makes them sound intelligent to say so.
— Anneli Rufus
Yet introverts and loners are not one and the same thing.
— Anneli Rufus
It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.
— Charles M. Blow
Why do extroverts have voicemail? To never miss a call.
Why do introverts have voicemail? To never answer the phone. — Devora Zack
Why do introverts have voicemail? To never answer the phone. — Devora Zack
So, to all you introverts out there, do not feel embarrassed or boring for being a person who prefers things that are hygge.
— Meik Wiking
Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.
— Jonathan Rauch
Goodreads is where introverts unite.
— Groucho Marx
I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.
— Laurie Helgoe
Extroverts get their energy from being around a lot of people, but introverts find large groups draining and require time alone to recharge
— Sophia Amoruso
He (Nixon) needed someone with him so he could be alone.
— Rick Perlstein
Introverts understand; the loneliest human in history was just happy to have a few minutes of peace and quiet.
— Randall Munroe
For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.
— Jonathan Rauch
Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.
— Douglas Conant
Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.
— Jonathan Rauch
I am a connoisseur of rain (all of us introverts are).
— Vivian Swift
I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.
— Susan Cain
The most effective teams are composed of a healthy mix of introverts and extroverts, studies show, and so are many leadership structures.
— Susan Cain
Extroverts get better grades than introverts during elementary school, but introverts outperform extroverts in high school and college.
— Susan Cain
Probably the most common - and damaging - misunderstanding about personality type is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro-social.
— Susan Cain
Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.
— Jenn Granneman
Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth.
— Sophia Dembling
For many Extraverts, "hell at a party" is "not being able to get in." Many introverts see it as "being there.
— Isabel Briggs Myers
I don't like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they're introverts.
— Cat Stevens
I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.
— Susan Cain
whole. Introverts may be able to fit all their friends in a phone booth, but those relationships tend to be deep and rewarding.
— Brian Walsh
I've been accused my whole life of being "too sensitive". This actually kind of pisses me off, but maybe that's just because I'm too sensitive.
— Sophia Dembling
Can introverts be leaders? Is
— Susan Cain
Though introverts look calm on the surface, our brains are bubbling with activity, and thus we require less external stimulation than extroverts.
— Adam S. McHugh
You're very perceptive for a guy who can go a whole day without talking," she said, peering up at him. "That's why I'm perceptive.
— Nicholas Sparks
introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with.
— Susan Cain
Introverts don't see life as one big cocktail party. We're content with just a few meaningful relationships.
— Jenn Granneman
The limited circle is pure.
— Franz Kafka
I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it.
— Jeb Bush
Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.
— Jenn Granneman
Life isn't about just talking, it's about thinking too.
— Marie Symeou
Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
— Susan Cain
Many introverts don't feel as if they know enough about a subject until they know almost everything.
— Marti Olsen Laney
While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields.
— Susan Cain
Introverts often prefer writing to speaking, because writing uses a different neurological pathway in the brain than speaking does.
— Adam S. McHugh
Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow actually responsible.
— Mark Vonnegut
I don't talk ill about people I don't know," said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.
— Michelle Franklin
Funny how addiction was socially acceptable - even a status symbol - when it made people extroverts rather than introverts
— Stacia Kane
There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.
— Lauren Morrill
Introverts think carefully before they speak. We can be excellent public speakers because we prepare carefully.
— Sophia Dembling
Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas,
— Susan Cain
[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.
— Susan Cain
In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.
— Adam S. McHugh
Introverts function better than extroverts when sleep deprived, which is a cortically de-arousing condition
— Susan Cain
Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.
— Joyce Rachelle
Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.
— Joyce Rachelle
Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.
— Isabel Briggs Myers
I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.
— Jessica Brown Findlay
My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
— S.E. Hinton
Introverts just just don't buzz as easily.
— Susan Cain