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." (	solitude introvert	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.	bullied loneliness pain youth confidence motivational inspirational adaptation attitude confidence-and-attitude encouragement anger growth outcast introvert bully bullying	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.	weird introvert	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.	solitude philosophy walden social thoreau introversion introvert	Henry David Thoreau
8fd61b2	The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.	freedom stupidity intelligence consequence closet cyberspace cyberspace-internet libel prejudices information social-networking online beliefs slander extrovert introvert propaganda media gossip internet technology	Criss Jami
bd8c583	"If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure"." --	individuality freedom extroverts teamwork introversion introverts introvert	Susan Cain
cd4f597	There's nothing more exciting than ideas.	fun introversion introvert ideas	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
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."	happy thoughts feelings learning play mom introverts quiet introvert home thoughtful school	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.	independence freedom imagination escapism introvert	Fernando Pessoa
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.	silence interruption misanthropy introvert	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.	ostracization introvert	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.	reading introvert party	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 princesses introvert introspection	Gail Carson Levine
04cc68b	Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.	solitude library literature reading books bookish irvine-welsh skagboys zenith heroine reading-books read introversion introvert reader	Irvine Welsh
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.	men introvert	Tom Robbins
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.	stress emotional-labor introvert	Susan Cain
98d90c2	Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435	people distance introvert	Joseph Delaney
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.	tin-can waitress like-life lorrie-moore restaurant dialogue introvert conversations	Lorrie Moore
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.	personality quiet introvert	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.	quiet introvert	Susan Cain
76018d5	Want more sales? Ask better questions.	introvert-quotes introverts-susan-cain-quote sales sales-tips sales-training small-business introvert	Matthew Pollard
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
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.	relatable introvert	William W. Johnstone
7783740	Poor Zora - she lived through footnotes.	footnotes missing-out introvert	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.	introvert-problems remote remoteness kant deep-thoughts introvert thinking	Robert Pirsig

"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.

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

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.

weird introvert

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.

solitude philosophy walden social thoreau introversion introvert

Henry David Thoreau

8fd61b2

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

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

Criss Jami

bd8c583

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

individuality freedom extroverts teamwork introversion introverts introvert

Susan Cain

cd4f597

There's nothing more exciting than ideas.

fun introversion introvert ideas

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

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."

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

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.

independence freedom imagination escapism introvert

Fernando Pessoa

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.

silence interruption misanthropy introvert

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.

ostracization introvert

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.

reading introvert party

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 princesses introvert introspection

Gail Carson Levine

04cc68b

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

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

Irvine Welsh

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.

men introvert

Tom Robbins

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.

stress emotional-labor introvert

Susan Cain

98d90c2

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

people distance introvert

Joseph Delaney

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.

tin-can waitress like-life lorrie-moore restaurant dialogue introvert conversations

Lorrie Moore

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.

personality quiet introvert

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.

quiet introvert

Susan Cain

76018d5

Want more sales? Ask better questions.

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

Matthew Pollard

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"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

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.

relatable introvert

William W. Johnstone

7783740

Poor Zora - she lived through footnotes.

footnotes missing-out introvert

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.

introvert-problems remote remoteness kant deep-thoughts introvert thinking

Robert Pirsig