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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 60e257e | 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. | extroversion personality | Susan Cain | |
| 82785fc | It may also help explain why they're so bored by small talk. "If you're thinking in more complicated ways," she told me, "then talking about the weather or where you went for the holidays is not quite as interesting as talking about values or morality." | Susan Cain | ||
| 2c1dd87 | Introverts recharge their batteries by being alone; | Susan Cain | ||
| ddb7eba | The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings. Although flow does not depend on being an introvert or an extrovert, many of the flow experiences that Csikszentmihalyi writes about are solitary pursuits that have nothing to do with reward-seeking: reading, tending an orchard, solo ocean cruising. Flow often occurs, he writes, in conditions in which people "become independent of the social environmen.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 33444c3 | I was the nicest person you'd ever want to know," Alex recalls, "but the world wasn't that way. The problem was that if you were just a nice person, you'd get crushed. I refused to live a life where people could do that stuff to me." | life nice person world | Susan Cain | |
| c12550f | We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. | Susan Cain | ||
| f5e266f | While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields. Outstanding introverted leaders, such as Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Patrick White and Arthur Boyd, who have created either new fields of thought or rearranged existing knowledge, have spent long periods of their lives in solitude. Hence leadership does not only apply in social situations, but also occurs .. | Susan Cain | ||
| c8c9830 | A few things introverts are not: The word introvert is not a synonym for hermit or misanthrope. Introverts can be these things, but most are perfectly friendly. | Susan Cain | ||
| 528d49d | Contrary to the Harvard Business School model of vocal leadership, the ranks of effective CEOs turn out to be filled with introverts, including Charles Schwab; Bill Gates; Brenda Barnes, CEO of Sara Lee; and James Copeland, former CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. | Susan Cain | ||
| 8b7ec17 | If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority. | Susan Cain | ||
| 7b67a5d | introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with. | Susan Cain | ||
| bc80100 | Unhappy people tend to see setbacks as contaminants that ruined an otherwise good thing ("I was never the same again after my wife left me"), while generative adults see them as blessings in disguise ("The divorce was the most painful thing that ever happened to me, but I'm so much happier with my new wife"). Those who live the most fully realized lives--giving back to their families, societies, and ultimately themselves--tend to find meani.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 9dbd433 | Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. | Susan Cain | ||
| b534995 | bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them in energy, authenticity, and even physical health. | Susan Cain | ||
| ac472be | We like to believe that we live in a grand age of creative individualism. We look back at the midcentury era in which the Berkeley researchers conducted their creativity studies, and feel superior. Unlike the starched-shirted conformists of the 1950s, we hang posters of Einstein on our walls, his tongue stuck out iconoclastically. We consume indie music and films, and generate our own online content. We "think different" (even if we got the.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 809020e | If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way. It's up to you to use that independence to good effect. | Susan Cain | ||
| 6cc8cad | I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being. | Hafez | ||
| 8d7bffa | m dr pylh `khs rkh yr dydhym y by khbr z ldht shrb mdm m hrgz nmyrd ankhh dlsh zndh shd bh `shq thbt st dr jrydhy `lm dwm m | دیوان غزل | Hafez | |
| 90d008f | Fear not to follow with pious feet the corpse of Hafiz, for though he was drowned in the ocean of sin, he may find a place in paradise. | hafez | ||
| f091105 | What decides whether a man will become immortal, is not his character but his vitality. Nothing save intensity confers immortality. A man manifests himself more vividly, in proportion as he is strong and unified, effective and unique. Immortality knows nothing of morality or immorality, of good or evil; it measures only work and strength; it demands from a man not purity but unity. Here, morality is nothing; intensity, all. | immorality immortality morality | Stefan Zweig | |
| 0b1eea2 | Es gibt eben zweierlei Mitleid. Das eine, das schwachmutige und sentimentale, das eigentlich nur Ungeduld des Herzens ist, sich moglichst schnell freizumachen von der peinlichen Ergriffenheit vor einem fremden Ungluck, jenes Mitleid, das gar nicht Mit-leiden ist, sondern nur instinktive Abwehr des fremden Leidens von der eigenen Seele. Und das andere, das einzig zahlt - das unsentimentale, aber schopferische Mitleid, das weiss, was es will,.. | ungeduld-des-herzens | Stefan Zweig | |
| 016a6e3 | no one would have pity on the foolish slave of his own pity. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 782448a | Yalnizca baslangictaki vesileye bakmakla yetinirseniz bir sevginin gucunu yanlis degerlendirirsiniz, aslinda daha oncesindeki gerilime, ruhun butun buyuk sarsintilarina zemin hazirlayan, yalnizligin ve dus kirikliklarinin yarattigi o bombos karanliga bakmak gerekir. Yasanmamis duygular burada birikerek asiri agirlasir ve degecegine inanilan ilk kisiyle karsilasildiginda alabildigine bosalir. | yakıcı-sır | Stefan Zweig | |
| 55833d0 | Nothing gives so keen an edge to the intelligence as a passionate suspicion. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| b71aaec | Two suitcases, in one the wardrobe, the earthly essentials, in the other- manuscripts, the spiritual supplies, then you are at home everywhere-Zweig GW Tagebuecher p. 383 | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 6ca833a | the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 4dd17df | La gratitud nos hace felices porque son raras las ocasiones en que se nos hace visible; toda delicadeza nos produce un efecto saludable, y para mi, naturaleza fria y mesurada, aquella superabundancia de sentimiento significaba algo nuevo, agradable y felicisimo. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 5053ed4 | IF I TRY TO FIND some useful phrase to sum up the time of my childhood and youth before the First World War, I hope I can put it most succinctly by calling it the Golden Age of Security. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 53793b8 | tokluk da acliktan daha az kiskirtici degildir | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 1cac4b1 | But spite is a wonderful thing for keeping people alive. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 7531465 | wl bd dy'man 'n tnsrb lmlyyn mn ls`t fy trykh l`lm hdran, qbl 'n tZhr l~ Hyz lwjwd s`@ trykhy@ Hqan, s`@ Hsm@ mn s`t lbshry@ | Stefan Zweig | ||
| a5326fc | her first glance at me would be bound to hold the question: have you forgiven me? And perhaps that still more critical question: will you bear with my love, and can you return it? That first moment when she would gaze up with a blush, a look of controlled and yet uncontrollable impatience, might be at once the most hazardous and decisive. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| b8673a7 | My husband made my dreams come true, and because he could do that I married him." Then he says softly, as if to himself, "But what about love?" She heard that. A slight smile comes to her lips. "Do you still have all the ideals, all the ideals that you took to that distant world with you? Are they all still intact , or have some of them died or withered away? Haven't they been torn out of you by force and flung in the dirt, where thousands .. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| a13e375 | Balzac has incomparably described how the example of Napoleon electrified an entire generation in France. To Balzac the brilliant rise of the insignificant Lieutenant Bonaparte to the rank of emperor of the world meant not only the triumph of an individual, but the victory of the idea of youth. That one did not have to be born a prince or a duke to achieve power at an early age, that one might come from any humble and even poor family and y.. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| ad38165 | No te culpo, te quiero tal como eres, ardiente y distraido, olvidadizo, entregado e infiel, te quiero asi, solo asi, como siempre has sido y como aun eres. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| c43541b | The newspapers recommended preparations which hastened the growth of the beard, and twenty-four- and twenty-five-year-old doctors, who had just finished their examinations, wore mighty beards and gold spectacles even if their eyes did not need them, so that they could make an impression of "experience" upon their first patients." | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 062c7e5 | even though we belong to three different religions. We are alike in so many more ways than we are different. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| e45bb0f | My dad always says that kindness is our religion and if we treat everybody the way we would like to be treated, the world would be a better place. | religion | Firoozeh Dumas | |
| 1b8c65a | Who would have ever though that a person could be so powerful, then so completely powerless, all in the same lifetime? | powerless | Firoozeh Dumas | |
| 015d50d | My Dad says that people like that {ignorant about other countries and cultures} are not truly horrible; they just need a geography class, a passport, and a few foreign friends. | ignorance | Firoozeh Dumas | |
| 41f025d | The Japanese have a saying that for every new food we try, we gain seven days of life. I may be immortal by now. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 00441b6 | They have never heard of Lindsay Lohan. They are blessed. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| b3cede3 | To all the kids who don't belong, for whatever reason. This one's for you. | Firoozeh Dumas | ||
| 0799958 | I truly believe that everyone has a story and everyone's story counts. | Firoozeh Dumas |