Introverted Quotes - Page 3

• On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been.

  Barack Obama

  Successful, Way, Politician

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I want to say that of course I want my writing to be read and discussed by as many people as possible, but this is different than wanting personal, "celebrity"-like attention. I'm very introverted and sensitive and dislike being talked about, positively or negatively.

  Marie Calloway

  Writing, People, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a very introverted guy, so I don't need to be around people for as long as someone who's very extroverted to get that sort of social fix per se.

  Adam Young

  Long, People, Guy

  "Owl City (Adam Young) Interview". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.fanpop.com.

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• If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.

  Dani Shapiro

  Social, Guru, Function

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded.

  Neil Peart

  Mean, Social, Share

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Growing Up, Guy, Characteristics

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live show, though, is the opposite. It's an extroverted process. It pushes me to connect with people, and so it pulls me out of my head and just pulls me out of myself.

  Fernando Torres

  Writing, Opposites, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm an introverted sort of writer.

  Will Kimbrough

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• I grew up very introverted and I'm still a very introverted person, so to me it's about constantly just pushing and pushing out of your comfort zone because that where you're going to grow the most.

  Lindsay Ellingson

  Comfort, Comfort Zone, Zone

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• I am a pretty good actor. Most of my friendships are based on the fact that I pretend to be outgoing and funny in social situations, but when I get home, I tend to isolate myself because I am actually somewhat bipolar and introverted. So it is really hard for me to invest time into a relationship because I get kind of freaked out by the thought of doing something that part of my mind keeps telling me is "unproductive".

  Reese Roper

  Home, Bipolar, Mind

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I think there are basically two kinds of musicians: some are extroverted and some are introverted. I think extroverted musicians are more in the entertainer kind of camp, which is just as valid, but you're going to be more apt to make music that is of the moment - whereas if you're coming from a more introverted place, the music is going to end up being more about the past or more personal. It's not going to be about the people in the room, per se.

  Memory Tapes

  Past, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read, and just get away and surf.

  Manny Montana

  Surf, Quiet, Get Away

  Source: collider.com

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• The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

  Gloria Estefan

  Writing, Challenges, Intimate

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2011.

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• As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Kids, Home

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• Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

  Orson Scott Card

  Alive, Association, Hungry

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.93, Macmillan

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• I am a very shy, introverted guy.

  Dave Pelzer

  Guy, Shy

  "No pain, no gain". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2004.

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• Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Feelings, Fur, Coats

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.

  Jack White

  Party, Cutting, Simple

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• I was a very introverted individual and this became an important outlet for me to express myself, to communicate, to take positions, make statements, take a stand and so forth. But I never really thought I had much a future at all So the thing that I had to do was to really go inward and really work super hard in the hope that someday it would pay off. And in using that term I don't mean necessarily money, but just the fact that I would have more depth and dimension both as a human being and as an artist.

  Ed Paschke

  Mean, Artist, Important

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• I wasn't always this introverted.

  Syd Barrett

  Introvert

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

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• I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there's not a safe environment for that.

  Jeremy Jordan

  Kids, Creativity, Thinking

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• I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Proud, Should

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• Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?'

  Steven Wright

  Nice, Childhood, Bigs

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• .. it makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading intiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack of interest in dominating social situations, introverts are more likely to hear and implement suggestions. Having benefited from the talents of their followers, they are then likely to motivate them to be even more proactive. Introverted leaders create a virtious circle of proactivity.

  Susan Cain

  Circles, Leader, Suggestions

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• At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Roots, People, Worry

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