introvert

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
9a5aa97	"I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music, and I'll bolt the door." (	introvert solitude	J.D. Salinger
dccda48	A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.	adaptation anger attitude bullied bully bullying confidence confidence-and-attitude encouragement growth inspirational introvert loneliness motivational outcast pain youth	Criss Jami
80d3f3a	Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.	extrovert introversion introvert	Susan Cain
0b2236d	My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.	introvert weird	Stephanie Perkins
7108f11	Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.	introversion introvert philosophy social solitude thoreau walden	Henry David Thoreau
8fd61b2	The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.	beliefs closet consequence cyberspace cyberspace-internet extrovert freedom gossip information intelligence internet introvert libel media online prejudices propaganda slander social-networking stupidity technology	Criss Jami
cd4f597	There's nothing more exciting than ideas.	fun ideas introversion introvert	Susan Cain
bd8c583	"If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure"." --	extroverts freedom individuality introversion introvert introverts teamwork	Susan Cain
e1e91fe	Consider that the simplest social interactions between two people requires performing an astonishing array of tasks: interpreting what the other person is saying; reading body language and facial expressions; smoothly taking turns talking and listening; responding to what the other person said; assessing whether you're being understood; determining whether you're well received, and, if not, figuring out how to improve or remove yourself from the situation. Think of what it takes to juggle all this at once! And that's just a one-to-one conversation. Now imagine the multitasking required in a group setting like a dinner party. (p237)	hsp introvert	susan cain
fae5dcf	"I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me. I missed them all, through deliberate negligence, Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn't come.	escapism freedom imagination independence introvert	Fernando Pessoa
e4de27a	"I need a break after school," she told me later. "School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play date without telling me, because I don't want to hurt my friends' feelings. But I'd rather stay home. At a friend's house you have to do the things other people want to do. I like hanging out with my mom after school because I can learn from her. She's been alive longer than me. We have thoughtful conversations. I like having conversations because they make people happy."	feelings happy home introvert introverts learning mom play quiet school thoughtful thoughts	Susan Cain
3a8eeea	...And suddenly, from behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt arrival of the office boy. I feel like I could kill him for barging in on what I wasn't thinking. I turn around and look at him with a silence full of hatred, tense with latent homicide, my mind already hearing the voice he'll use to tell me something or other. He smiles from the other side of the room and says 'Good afternoon' in a loud voice. I hate him like the universe. My eyes are sore from imagining.	interruption introvert misanthropy silence	Fernando Pessoa
fc3041d	He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to think of the difference between himself and others.	introvert ostracization	W. Somerset Maugham
44b51fa	It was a great mistake to have come. He should have stayed at home and read his book, thought Peter Walsh; should have gone to a music hall; he should have stayed at home, for he knew no one.	introvert party reading	Virginia Woolf
7624765	...while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.	fairy-tales fairytale introspection introvert princesses	Gail Carson Levine
a96f632	The highest men are calm, silent and unknown...The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in the vibrations the leave behind, and upon which the lesser gurus build their doctrines.	introvert men	Tom Robbins
04cc68b	Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.	bookish books heroine introversion introvert irvine-welsh library literature read reader reading reading-books skagboys solitude zenith	Irvine Welsh
54f2165	Each lived in a world of which the other knew nothing.	individual introvert	George Eliot
1427dff	When your conscientiousness impels you to take on more than you can handle, you begin to lose interest, even in tasks that normally engage you. You risk your physical health. 'Emotional labor,' which is the effort we make to control and change our own emotions, is associated with stress, burnout, and even physical symptoms like and increase in cardiovascular disease.	emotional-labor introvert stress	Susan Cain
98d90c2	Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435	distance introvert people	Joseph Delaney
1bc80a7	Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.	introvert personality quiet	Susan Cain
02ce5d4	Many shy people turn inward, partly as a refuge from the socializing that causes them such anxiety. And many introverts are shy, partly as a result of receiving the message that there's something wrong with their preference for reflection, and partly because their physiologies, as we'll see, compel them to withdraw from high-stimulation environments.	introvert quiet	Susan Cain
76018d5	Want more sales? Ask better questions.	introvert introvert-quotes introverts-susan-cain-quote sales sales-tips sales-training small-business	Matthew Pollard
08cb618	He began to prefer talking on the phone to actually getting together with someone, preferred the bodilessness of it, and started to turn down social engagements. He didn't want to actually sit across from someone in a restaurant, look at their face, and eat food. He wanted to turn away, not deal with the face, have the waitress bring them two tin cans and some string so they could just converse, in a faceless dialogue.	conversations dialogue introvert like-life lorrie-moore restaurant tin-can waitress	Lorrie Moore
454bddf	Fur trade's damn near gone; pilgrims pourin' in over the trails me and all the others opened up. Hate to see it. Why, I seen five white people just last month. Five! Gettin' so's a body can't even be alone no more.	introvert relatable	William W. Johnstone
7783740	Poor Zora - she lived through footnotes.	footnotes introvert missing-out	Zadie Smith
b9fe1aa	I must always seem so reserved and remote to them. Once in a while they ask questions that seem to call for a statement of what the hell I'm always thinking about, but if I were to babble what's really on my mind about, say, the a priori presumption of the continuity of a motorcycle from second to second and do this without benefit of the entire edifice of the Chautauqua, they'd just be startled and wonder what's wrong. I really am interested in this continuity and the way we talk and think about it and so tend to get removed from the usual lunchtime situation and this gives an appearance of remoteness. It's a problem.	deep-thoughts introvert introvert-problems kant remote remoteness thinking	Robert Pirsig
dc79d03	"Uzaemon is no longer surprised by Shuzai's perspicacity. "I don't know if I have the right to involve you." "To a believer in Fate," replies Shuzai, "it's not you who is involving me."	extrovert introversion introvert	David Mitchell

"I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music, and I'll bolt the door." (

J.D. Salinger

dccda48

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

adaptation anger attitude bullied bully bullying confidence confidence-and-attitude encouragement growth inspirational introvert loneliness motivational outcast pain youth

Criss Jami

80d3f3a

Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.

extrovert introversion introvert

Susan Cain

0b2236d

My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.

introvert weird

Stephanie Perkins

7108f11

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.

introversion introvert philosophy social solitude thoreau walden

Henry David Thoreau

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The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.

beliefs closet consequence cyberspace cyberspace-internet extrovert freedom gossip information intelligence internet introvert libel media online prejudices propaganda slander social-networking stupidity technology

Criss Jami

cd4f597

There's nothing more exciting than ideas.

fun ideas introversion introvert

Susan Cain

bd8c583

"If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure"." --

extroverts freedom individuality introversion introvert introverts teamwork

Susan Cain

e1e91fe

Consider that the simplest social interactions between two people requires performing an astonishing array of tasks: interpreting what the other person is saying; reading body language and facial expressions; smoothly taking turns talking and listening; responding to what the other person said; assessing whether you're being understood; determining whether you're well received, and, if not, figuring out how to improve or remove yourself from the situation. Think of what it takes to juggle all this at once! And that's just a one-to-one conversation. Now imagine the multitasking required in a group setting like a dinner party. (p237)

hsp introvert

susan cain

fae5dcf

"I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me. I missed them all, through deliberate negligence, Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn't come.

escapism freedom imagination independence introvert

Fernando Pessoa

e4de27a

"I need a break after school," she told me later. "School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play date without telling me, because I don't want to hurt my friends' feelings. But I'd rather stay home. At a friend's house you have to do the things other people want to do. I like hanging out with my mom after school because I can learn from her. She's been alive longer than me. We have thoughtful conversations. I like having conversations because they make people happy."

feelings happy home introvert introverts learning mom play quiet school thoughtful thoughts

Susan Cain

3a8eeea

...And suddenly, from behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt arrival of the office boy. I feel like I could kill him for barging in on what I wasn't thinking. I turn around and look at him with a silence full of hatred, tense with latent homicide, my mind already hearing the voice he'll use to tell me something or other. He smiles from the other side of the room and says 'Good afternoon' in a loud voice. I hate him like the universe. My eyes are sore from imagining.

interruption introvert misanthropy silence

Fernando Pessoa

fc3041d

He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to think of the difference between himself and others.

introvert ostracization

W. Somerset Maugham

44b51fa

It was a great mistake to have come. He should have stayed at home and read his book, thought Peter Walsh; should have gone to a music hall; he should have stayed at home, for he knew no one.

introvert party reading

Virginia Woolf

7624765

...while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.

fairy-tales fairytale introspection introvert princesses

Gail Carson Levine

a96f632

The highest men are calm, silent and unknown...The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in the vibrations the leave behind, and upon which the lesser gurus build their doctrines.

introvert men

Tom Robbins

04cc68b

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.

bookish books heroine introversion introvert irvine-welsh library literature read reader reading reading-books skagboys solitude zenith

Irvine Welsh

54f2165

Each lived in a world of which the other knew nothing.

individual introvert

George Eliot

1427dff

When your conscientiousness impels you to take on more than you can handle, you begin to lose interest, even in tasks that normally engage you. You risk your physical health. 'Emotional labor,' which is the effort we make to control and change our own emotions, is associated with stress, burnout, and even physical symptoms like and increase in cardiovascular disease.

emotional-labor introvert stress

Susan Cain

98d90c2

Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435

distance introvert people

Joseph Delaney

1bc80a7

Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.

introvert personality quiet

Susan Cain

02ce5d4

Many shy people turn inward, partly as a refuge from the socializing that causes them such anxiety. And many introverts are shy, partly as a result of receiving the message that there's something wrong with their preference for reflection, and partly because their physiologies, as we'll see, compel them to withdraw from high-stimulation environments.

introvert quiet

Susan Cain

76018d5

Want more sales? Ask better questions.

introvert introvert-quotes introverts-susan-cain-quote sales sales-tips sales-training small-business

Matthew Pollard

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He began to prefer talking on the phone to actually getting together with someone, preferred the bodilessness of it, and started to turn down social engagements. He didn't want to actually sit across from someone in a restaurant, look at their face, and eat food. He wanted to turn away, not deal with the face, have the waitress bring them two tin cans and some string so they could just converse, in a faceless dialogue.

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Lorrie Moore

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Fur trade's damn near gone; pilgrims pourin' in over the trails me and all the others opened up. Hate to see it. Why, I seen five white people just last month. Five! Gettin' so's a body can't even be alone no more.

introvert relatable

William W. Johnstone

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Poor Zora - she lived through footnotes.

footnotes introvert missing-out

Zadie Smith

b9fe1aa

I must always seem so reserved and remote to them. Once in a while they ask questions that seem to call for a statement of what the hell I'm always thinking about, but if I were to babble what's really on my mind about, say, the a priori presumption of the continuity of a motorcycle from second to second and do this without benefit of the entire edifice of the Chautauqua, they'd just be startled and wonder what's wrong. I really am interested in this continuity and the way we talk and think about it and so tend to get removed from the usual lunchtime situation and this gives an appearance of remoteness. It's a problem.

deep-thoughts introvert introvert-problems kant remote remoteness thinking

Robert Pirsig

dc79d03

"Uzaemon is no longer surprised by Shuzai's perspicacity. "I don't know if I have the right to involve you." "To a believer in Fate," replies Shuzai, "it's not you who is involving me."

extrovert introversion introvert

David Mitchell