Introvert Quotes - Page 11

• I was just confused about why I was feeling overwhelmed all the time and trying to adjust to having people work for me. Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.

  Felicia Day

  Confused, Thinking, People

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• When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.

  Mary Oliver

  Running, Weed, Rose

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.71, Penguin

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• I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee... I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone... Not on a committee. Not on a team.

  Steve Wozniak

  Team, Believe, Giving

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• People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

  Andy Warhol

  People, Interesting, Together

  Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (2015). “POPism: The Warhol Sixties”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People inspire you, or they drain you - pick them wisely.

  Hans Froði Hansen

  People, Fearless, Inspire

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• I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

  Christian Slater

  Kids, People, Shy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

  Bell Hooks

  Children, Needs, Able

  "'There’s No Place to Go But Up' — bell hooks and Maya Angelou in conversation". Interview with Maya Angelou, www.lionsroar.com. January 1, 1998.

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• Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

  Peter Senge

  Mistake, Expectations, Frustrated

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• Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

  Edward Coke

  Mother, Causes, Coke

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• I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

  Alberto Tomba

  Motivational, Athlete, Winning

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• The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a presence online and then extend these relationships into the real world.

  Susan Cain

  Real, Thinking, Hands

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.63, Broadway Books

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• I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

  Lee Krasner

  Time, Being Alone, Needs

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• Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.

  Joss Whedon

  Assets

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• I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  High Heels, Honest, Painful

  "Portrait of the artist: Natasha Bedingfield, singer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2007.

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• I'm not an introvert. I'm media shy.

  Steven A. Cohen

  Media, Shy

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• I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.

  Susan Cain

  Keys, People, Asking

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

  Susan Cain

  People, Extroverts, 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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• I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.

  Faith Evans

  Thinking, People, Darkness

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• I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Strong, Roles, Female

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It’s a constant tension for many introverts that they’re not living that out. And in a religious world, there’s more at stake when you feel that tension. It doesn’t feel like ‘I’m not doing as well as I’d like.’ It feels like ‘God isn’t pleased with me.’ 

  Susan Cain

  Religious, People, Community

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.66, Broadway Books

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• The world of politics is divided between people who are introverts - who lose a little bit of energy out of each interaction they have so that by the time the day ends, after 1,000 interactions, they're exhausted - and people like Bill Clinton who are extroverted - who get a little bit of energy from each interaction.

  Robert Reich

  People, Bills, Energy

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• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Music, Communication, Silence

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• I wasn't always this introverted.

  Syd Barrett

  Introverted

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Solitude, Trying

  Source: www.hbook.com

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