Extroverts Quotes - Page 2

• Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.

  Neil Peart

  School, Introvert, School Days

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You've got the shy woman and you've got the obnoxious woman and you've got the brainiac and you've got the social climber and you've got the introvert and the extrovert, and you're all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that's an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, People, Personality

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

  Susan Cain

  Teaching, Kids, Favour

  "Susan Cain: 'Society has a cultural bias towards extroverts'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.

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• Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on the back, team building, and making fun of introverts to get much done. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow responsible.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Fun, Team, Causes

  Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.28, Delacorte Press

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• Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.

  Neil Peart

  School, Adults, Way

  "Q and A with Neil Peart of Rush". Interview with Mike Doherty, www.macleans.ca. August 13, 2012.

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• You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

  Michael Fassbender

  Teacher, Drama, School

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 8, 2011.

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• For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Sleep, Introvert, Eating

  "Caring for Your Introvert" by Jonathan Rauch, www.theatlantic.com. March 2003.

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• Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Nice, Player, Doe

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.206, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Introverts keep their best stuff inside—that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert’s behavior—and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts—is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Crazy, Stuff, Introvert

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• 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

  Differences, Introvert, Guilty

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.95, Criss Jami

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• Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. But when you’re focused on a project that you care about, you probably find that your energy is boundless.

  Susan Cain

  Challenges, Trying, Energy

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• Some people are introverts and if they don't have enough time for themselves, they don't feel right. And extroverts don't feel right with too much alone time. There are those who need walks in nature or they feel depressed. Your linchpin is the pin that makes the wheel go. If you lose it, the wheel falls apart.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Fall, People, Too Much

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• 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

  Two, Needs, Introvert

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• In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that the weekly profits of the stores managed by extroverts were 16 percent higher than the profits of those led by introverts—but only when the employees were passive types who tended to do their job without exercising initiative. Introverted leaders had the exact opposite results. When they worked with employees who actively tried to improve work procedures, their stores outperformed those led by extroverts by more than 14 percent.

  Susan Cain

  Jobs, Exercise, Opposites

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• The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel enough 'outerness'.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Hands, Attention

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.27, Criss Jami

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• A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.

  John Ortberg

  Often Is, Boss, Employee

  John Ortberg (2012). “Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus”, p.75, Zondervan

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• Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.

  Susan Cain

  Spiritual, Jesus, Real

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• As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.But, we can go too far. We can hoard responsibility and overlook the role others play. We can kick ourselves when we're down. How many times have you felt lousy about something, only to get mad at yourself for feeling lousy?

  Laurie Helgoe

  Responsibility, Worst Enemy, Play

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• If the extrovert watches and listens a bit more, the introvert's true mood will become more evident.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Watches, Introvert, Mood

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Extroverts are more attuned to social rewards, so they are more likely to flash a smile for effect. A notable exception are introverts - like me - whom I call "socially accessible" introverts. We have been trained well to smile and nod, which can place a burden on our processing efforts.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Effort, Rewards, Notable

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but they’re still mocked as drones or beavers or trolls. That’s bad enough, but now technology is helping the extroverts in their long twilight campaign against actually concentrating on anything.

  Kevin Drum

  Twilight, Technology, Long

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• Extroverts are more responsive to high-intensity and "happy" stimuli, which may be why an extrovert gets frustrated at the less "readable" face of the introvert.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Frustrated, May, Faces

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.

  Nicole Kidman

  Introvert, Reserved

  "Nicole Kidman's Wild Ride" by Laura Brown, Slide 1, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 08, 2012.

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• [Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright.

  Vanessa Kirby

  Fashion, Drama, Princess

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.

  Dar Williams

  Long, People, Enough Time

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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