Extroverts Quotes

• 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.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Worst Enemy, Envy, Solitude

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.194, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Educational, Care, Crowds

  "How to Cash In on Your Passion". Interview with Rich Brooks, www.fastcompany.com. October 12, 2009.

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• There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Would Be, Lunatic Asylums

  Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand

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• It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out.

  N. T. Wright

  People, Mad, Library

  "Trevin Wax Interview with N.T. Wright". www.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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

  Susan Cain

  People, Introvert, Amazed

  ""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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• An extrovert is more likely to share immediate reactions and process information through conversation.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Information, Share, Reactions

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

  Susan Cain

  Volleyball, Zero, Motivation

  "The Power of Introverts". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

  Susan Cain

  Personality, Style, Standards

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge. My own formula is roughly two hours alone for every hour of socializing. This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression. It does not call for medication. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating. Our motto: I'm okay, you're okay-in small doses.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Sleep, Phones, Cells

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• I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

  John Thaw

  Introspective, Persons

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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, Introvert, Prove

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• Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

  Susan Cain

  Love, People, Important

  "One trick introverts use to become influential public leaders" by Rachel Gillett, www.businessinsider.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Being an extrovert isn't essential to evangelism - obedience and love are.

  Rebecca Pippert

  And Love, Essentials, Obedience

  Rebecca Manley Pippert (1999). “Out of the Saltshaker & into the World: Evangelism as a Way of Life”, IVP Books

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• Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.

  Susan Cain

  Fall, Race, Personality

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

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• I'm probably the most introverted extrovert you'll ever meet. Up until I got this show I was constantly told, 'She was really good, but she's just not cute enough.'

  Nikki Cox

  Cute, Introvert, Enough

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• I am a little extrovert.

  Kushal Pal Singh

  Littles

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• I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.

  Freddie Mercury

  Powerful, Men, Monsters

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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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• Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Jobs, Nice, Writing

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• Extroverts want us to have fun, because they assume we want what they want. And sometimes we do. But "fun" itself is a "bright" word, the kind of word that comes with flashing lights and an exclamation point! One of Merriam-Webster's definitions of "fun" is "violent or excited activity or argument." The very word makes me want to sit in a dimly lit room with lots of pillows-by myself.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Fun, Light, Exclamation Points

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• Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Journey, Culture

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• Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.

  Susan Cain

  Men, World, Introvert

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

  Alex Kapranos

  Party, Ideas, People

  "Bringing Sexy Back". Interview with Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. January 6, 2008.

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• Isn't it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not think it's a big deal that you can spend hours immersed in something that interests you-alone-but the extrovert next door has no idea how you do it.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Thinking, Doors, Ideas

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• Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

  Roger Moore

  Thinking, Age, Events

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