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The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

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Party, Animal, Rushing

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It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

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People, Tragedy, World

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.137, Broadway Books

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America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover.

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Character, America, Personality

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Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

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Thinking, Opposites, Fundamentals

"How to Parent an Introverted Child: An Interview With Susan Cain". Interview with Sil Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2013.

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The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually strong consciences. ... they're acutely aware of the consequences of a lapse in their own behavior.

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Strong, People, Tragedy

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.137, Broadway Books

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Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.

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Ideas, Needs, Introvert

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.173, Broadway Books

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INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent’s death, or abuse. They’re more likely than their peers to react to these events with depression, anxiety, and shyness. Indeed, about a quarter of Kagan’s high-reactive kids suffer from some degree of the condition known as “social anxiety disorder,” a chronic and disabling form of shyness.

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Kids, Anxiety Disorder, Parent

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I'm not saying abolish group work - I think there's a time and a place for people to come together and exchange ideas, but let's restore the respect we once had for solitude. And we need to be much more mindful of the way we come together.

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Thinking, Ideas, People

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When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.

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Football, Beer, Glasses

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.139, Penguin UK

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A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

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Disappointment, Self, Our Society

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Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

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Memories, Insecure, People

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.84, Broadway Books

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We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it's not the children who change but their environments. As adults they get to select the careers, spouses, and social circles that suit them. They don't have to live in whatever culture they'er plunked into.

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Children, Kids, Circles

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.253, Broadway Books

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The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

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Energy, Waste, Talent

"'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking,' by Susan Cain". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

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Self Esteem, Way, True Self

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Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

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Book, People, Guilt

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.7, Broadway Books

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Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

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Introvert, Crosses, Acquaintance

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.265, Broadway Books

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I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They're valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

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Thinking, Ideas, Worry

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Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas.

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Strong, Party, Home

"Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking". Book by Susan Cain, January 24, 2012.

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I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

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Children, Mean, Thinking

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I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering passengers. But when she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature. They said she was "timid and shy" but had "the courage of a lion." They were full of phrases like "radical humility" and "quiet fortitude.

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Sweet, Humility, Two

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.2, Broadway Books

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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.

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

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Risk, Needs, Culture

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Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don’t mistake a child’s caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He’s recoiling from novelty or overstimulation, not from human contact. Introverts are just as likely as the next kid to seek others’ company, though often in smaller doses

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Children, Mistake, Kids

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

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New Relationship, Cards, Genuine

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Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

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And Love, Inward, Way

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