Introvert Quotes - Page 8

• Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

  Ann Brashares

  Bridges, People, Fake

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.45, Delacorte Press

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• What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

  Lord Byron

  Travel, Men, Waiting

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• I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Acceptance, Take Me As I Am, I Am What I Am

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• I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.

  Kerry Washington

  Inspiring, Women, Being Alone

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• I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

  Nelson Mandela

  Running, Distance, School

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• So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

  Andy Grove

  Giving, World, Quiet

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• For the introvert, conversation can be a very limited forum for self expression. When a song moves you, a writer gets you or a theory enlightens you, you and its creator are connecting in a realm beyond sight or speech.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Song, Moving, Sight

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.72, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mom, World Love, People

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• I was never less alone than when by myself.

  Edward Gibbon

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

  Edward Gibbon, John Baker Holroyd (2014). “Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire”, p.83, Cambridge University Press

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• They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ease, Extroverts, Prove

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• Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Creative, Leader, Energy

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• America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Communication, America, Silence

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• I'm one of the biggest introverts you could ever meet.

  Tim Gunn

  "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 2012.

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

  Nicole Kidman

  Extroverts, Reserved

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

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• Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Live Life, Sociability

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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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• The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

  B. F. Skinner

  Intelligent, Men, Personality

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• Emotionally I'm an introvert but it come off as aggression

  Kevin Gates

  Aggression

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• I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Needs, Reason, Alone Time

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.

  John Piper

  People, Ministry

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

  Susan Cain

  People, Achievement, Humanity

  "Introverts Run the World - Quietly". edition.cnn.com. March 18, 2012.

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• Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.

  Susan Cain

  Adventure, Garden, Keys

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

  Roy Rogers

  Heart, Shows, Show Business

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• I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Gratitude, Appreciate, Depth

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• There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.

  Ruskin Bond

  Two, Inward, Kind

  Source: www.abhijitbhaduri.com

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