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We like to think that we value individuality, but all too often we admire one type of individual - the — Susan Cain

One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards. — Susan Cain

To advance our careers, we're expected to promote ourselves unabashedly. — Susan Cain

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. — Susan Cain

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional. — Susan Cain

We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run. — Susan Cain

People plunge hungrily into searching conversations. There's a lot of one-on-one discussion about intimate topics — Susan Cain

(Taking shelter in bathrooms is a surprisingly common phenomenon, as you probably know if you're an introvert. — Susan Cain

If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. — Susan Cain

In our culture, guilt is a tainted word, but it's probably one of the building blocks of conscience. — Susan Cain

Prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet - seems — Susan Cain

FOR THE ANXIETY THAT COMES FROM NOT FITTING IN, — Susan Cain

Don't mistake assertiveness or eloquence for good ideas. — Susan Cain

Speak with conviction. Even if you believe something only fifty-five percent, say it as if you believe it a hundred percent. — Susan Cain

Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones — Susan Cain

It's also important for companies to groom listeners — Susan Cain

She lied to me today," Archie said.
"A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible. — Chelsea Cain

Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers. — Susan Cain

Introverts function better than extroverts when sleep deprived, which is a cortically de-arousing condition — Susan Cain

If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure". — Susan Cain

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings. — Susan Cain

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it. — Susan Cain

Students take ownership of their education when they learn from one another — Susan Cain

I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions. — Susan Cain

Evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups, — Susan Cain

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. — Susan Cain

I realize it's not true that I'm no longer shy; I've just learned to talk myself down from the ledge — Susan Cain

Aggression - Emily is uncomfortable with anger - but — Susan Cain

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

it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected to the joys and sorrows of the world, — Susan Cain

I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country ... — Susan Cain

Aggressive power beats you up; soft power wins you over. — Susan Cain

Today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. — Susan Cain

All of this would be fine if more talking were correlated with greater insight, but research suggests that there's no such link. — Susan Cain

Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of paying attention to two things at the same time. — Susan Cain

I've never given a speech without being terrified first. — Susan Cain

There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet. — Susan Cain

38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity. — Susan Cain

not everyone aspires to be a leader in the conventional sense of the word - that — Susan Cain

LET YOUR FACE REFLECT CONFIDENCE, NOT WORRY! IT'S THE 'LOOK' OF YOU BY WHICH YOU ARE JUDGED MOST OFTEN. — 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

What is the inner behavior of people whose most visible feature is that when you take them to a party they aren't very pleased about it? — Susan Cain

True self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around. — 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. — Susan Cain

Can introverts be leaders? Is — Susan Cain

(Never mind that the assistants were likely interchangeable, while Michelangelo was not.) — Susan Cain

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them. — Susan Cain

Soft power is quiet persistence. — Susan Cain

We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally. — Susan Cain

Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe — Susan Cain

America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality — Susan Cain

Everyone shines, given the right lighting. — Susan Cain

People who tend to [suppress their negative emotions] regularly," concludes Grob, "might start to see the world in a more negative light. — Susan Cain

Galen's Prophecy, — Susan Cain

If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. — Susan Cain

Why are some people talkative while others measure their words? Why — Susan Cain

They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. — Susan Cain

The word introvert is not a synonym for hermit or misanthrope. — Susan Cain

When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge. — Susan Cain

Introverts just just don't buzz as easily. — Susan Cain

It's not that I'm so smart," said Einstein, who was a consummate introvert. "It's that I stay with problems longer. — Susan Cain

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts. — Susan Cain

She had trouble finding the sacred in the everyday; it seemed to be there only when she withdrew from the world. — Susan Cain

Who could be happy in a world of podiums and microphones? — Susan Cain

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old! — Susan Cain

One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards. — Susan Cain

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups. — Susan Cain

The authors whose books get published - once accepted as a reclusive breed - are now vetted by publicists to make sure they're talk-show ready. — Susan Cain

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. — Susan Cain

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it. — Susan Cain

At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability. — Susan Cain

I've never been in a group environment in which I didn't feel obliged to present an unnaturally rah-rah version of myself. — Susan Cain

Probably the most common - and damaging - misunderstanding about personality type is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro-social. — Susan Cain

we revere our founding fathers precisely because they were loudmouths on the subject of freedom: Give me liberty or give me death! — Susan Cain

iconoclastically. — Susan Cain

Finally, pay attention to what you envy. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. I — 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

Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever. — Susan Cain

Most leading in a corporation is done in small meetings and it's done at a distance, through written and video communications, — Susan Cain

Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything. - ROBERT RUBIN, — Susan Cain

Introverts are "geared to inspect" and extroverts "geared to respond. — Susan Cain

It takes approximately ten thousand hours of Deliberate Practice to gain true expertise, — Susan Cain

Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements. — Susan Cain

There's nothing more exciting than ideas. — Susan Cain

He also suggests "No-Talk Thursdays," one day a week in which employees aren't allowed to speak to each other. — Susan Cain

Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. — Susan Cain

Whenever you're in an army group and somebody says, 'I think we're all getting on the bus to Abilene here,' that is a red flag. — Susan Cain

Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being. — Susan Cain

(Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.) — Susan Cain

Nobody is going to care who won or lost any election when the earth is uninhabitable. — Susan Cain

(You wouldn't be reading this book if I hadn't convinced my publisher that I was enough of a pseudo-extrovert to promote it.) — Susan Cain

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree. — Susan Cain

Potential clients would walk out of Charlie's office scared — Susan Cain

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured. — Susan Cain

I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style. — Susan Cain

While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields. — Susan Cain

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need. — Susan Cain

Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting? — Susan Cain

All talking is selling and all selling involves talking, — Susan Cain

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