Introvert Quotes - Page 5

• Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

  Susan Cain

  Love, Essentials, Gregariousness

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.264, 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, Extroverts, Enough

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• We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

  Bertrand Russell

  Advice, Solitude, World

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

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• [Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

  Susan Cain

  Motivation, Inspiration, Journey

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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 was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

  Nigella Lawson

  Inspirational, Teenage, Teens

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• I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

  Courteney Cox

  Lonely, Superficial, Ifs

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• Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.

  Susan Cain

  Spiritual, Jesus, Real

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• If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Thinking, Waiting, Needs

  "Interview With Dr. Laurie Helgoe, Author of Introvert Power". Interview with Sophia Dembling, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2009.

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• Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Passion, Self, Might

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.2043, eBookIt.com

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• I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

  Bjork

  Self, People, Scare

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• Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

  Douglas Davis

  Art, Being Alone, Creativity

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• I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

  Donald Cargill

  Men, Sound, Quiet

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• A shy kid might look longingly at other kids playing in the schoolyard, afraid and unsure about how to approach them, but an introvert is perfectly content on her own.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Kids, Shy, Looks

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• Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Independent, Intelligent, Extroverts

  "Caring for Your Introvert". www.theatlantic.com. March, 2003.

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• Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for those who might fall into the former categories or whose company you enjoy for its own sake. And don't worry about socializing with everyone else. Relationships make everyone happier, introverts included, but think quality over quantity.

  Susan Cain

  Fall, Love Is, Thinking

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• Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.

  Susan Cain

  Focus, Tasks, Wealth

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Party, Privacy, Host

  The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

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  Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

  Billy Joel

  Heart, Loud Voices, Musician

  Twitter post from Sep 27, 2011

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• Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Suicidal, Solitary Life

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• He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Quiet, Perks Of A Wallflower, Perks

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Being Alone, Creativity, Winning

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• The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

  Ross Macdonald

  Wall, Book, Past

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• Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.

  Susan Cain

  School, Animal, Expression

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends cos I'm too content being by myself.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dog, Lonely, Being Alone

  "Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.

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