Introvert Quotes - Page 9

• When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

  Criss Jami

  Writing, Creativity, Average

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• I will say they were horrified when I wanted to be an actor. It wasn't a showbiz-y family, and my parents are real introverts who don't go to a lot of Hollywood parties and are most comfortable in their pajamas in our sweet little home. Part of the reason I wanted to be an actor and not just a writer is because I felt much more extroverted than that - I love to be around people, and feed off people's energy, and collaborations. If I hadn't had their example, I wouldn't have been so serious, but I also wouldn't have wanted so much to find another creative outlet.

  Zoe Kazan

  Sweet, Real, Party

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Actors, Feels, Socializing

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• There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Father, People, Loner

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• Introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity, it is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Light, Brain, Levels

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• Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

  Paula Cole

  Process, Internals

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• For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.

  Dar Williams

  Couple, Blow, 50th Birthday

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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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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• I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Should

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• Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.

  Henri Nouwen

  Taken, Home, Holy Ground

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.26, HarperCollins

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• Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Talking, People, Quiet

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

  Ariel Gore

  People, Silence, World

  Ariel Gore (2003). “Atlas of the Human Heart”, p.23, Seal Press

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• In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.

  Florence King

  Country, Art, Flower

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• I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.

  Brian Bosworth

  California, Boring, Boring Life

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• And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Being Alone, Creativity

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• I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Sports, People, Shy

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• I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it.

  Jeb Bush

  Extroverts, Advantage, Missions

  "SKIMM YOUR CANDIDATE: Fmr. Gov. Jeb Bush (FL), Republican". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2015.

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• I guess they say that you can find out if you're an extravert or an introvert by how you recharge yourself and I guess I'm more of an introvert in that way because I like to be by myself to recharge, but I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having good conversations.

  Emily Deschanel

  People, Way, Conversation

  "Emily Deschanel Talks Bones: Season 2". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 26, 2007.

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• I couldn't help but feel very different from everybody, so I think that's why I found such a big world in music, and that's why I kind of - I was an introvert as a kid, but I loved the piano, and that's where I felt at home.

  Emeli Sande

  Home, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.

  Jonathan Cain

  Jobs, Party, Thinking

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

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• But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

  Paula Cole

  Couple, Too Much, Facts

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• I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other people's clothes and pretending to be somebody else, which is completely crazy choice of profession. So, I don't enjoy public speaking and I have every sympathy for anyone who has to do it and doesn't enjoy it.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Crazy, Clothes, People

  "The King's Speech - Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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  Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Song, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• I think Jon Foo and my chemistry is incredible! Foo is a genuine introvert and I'm a genuine extrovert. We're the perfect ying and yang, on and off camera.

  Justin Hires

  Thinking, Perfect, Cameras

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I was very shy and very reserved as a child, very, very introvert.

  Om Puri

  Children, Shy, Reserved

  "Actor Om Puri Had Roles In More Than 300 Movies During His Life". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. January 8, 2017.

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