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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 62c4cdd | The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. --CARL JUNG | Susan Cain | ||
| 6125534 | when she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature. They said she was "timid and shy" but had "the courage of a lion." They were full of phrases like "radical humility" and "quiet fortitude." | Susan Cain | ||
| 0a6bf59 | Susan Cain suggests that introverts actually make better leaders than extroverts. Introverts have a softer, more compassionate, servant-oriented kind of leadership, she says, that enables families, businesses, and churches to thrive. | Judson Edwards | ||
| e29967b | The "Bus to Abilene" anecdote reveals our tendency to follow those who initiate action--any action." | Susan Cain | ||
| 638a1ff | Gandhi's passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert energy to unnecessary skirmishes along the way. | Susan Cain | ||
| fedc29a | It's not always so easy, it turns out, to identify your core personal projects. And it can be especially tough for introverts, who have spent so much of their lives conforming to extroverted norms that by the time they choose a career, or a calling, it feels perfectly normal to ignore their own preferences. They may be uncomfortable in law school or nursing school or in the marketing department, but no more so than they were back in middle .. | Susan Cain | ||
| 11db1e4 | Introverts and extroverts also direct their attention differently: if you leave them to their own devices, the introverts tend to sit around wondering about things, imagining things, recalling events from their past, and making plans for the future. The extroverts are more likely to focus on what's happening around them. It's as if extroverts are seeing "what is" while their introverted peers are asking "what if." Introverts" -- | Susan Cain | ||
| 13a0813 | I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas," he" | Susan Cain | ||
| 19ab74d | Iconoclast, the neuroeconomist Gregory Berns | Susan Cain | ||
| 6695c35 | Usually they're carried away by people who are assertive and domineering. The risk with our students is that they're very good at getting their way. But that doesn't mean they're going the right way." If" | Susan Cain | ||
| 8542f4c | The one and only personality trait the effective ones I have encountered did have in common was something they did not have: they had little or no 'charisma' and little use either for the term or what it signifies." Supporting Drucker's claim, Brigham Young University management professor Bradley Agle studied the CEOs of 128 major companies and found that those considered charismatic by their top executives had bigger salaries but not bette.. | Susan Cain | ||
| bea88d3 | Functional, moderate guilt," writes Kochanska, "may promote future altruism, personal responsibility, adaptive behavior in school, and harmonious, competent, and prosocial relationships with parents, teachers, and friends." This is an especially important set of attributes at a time when a 2010 University of Michigan study shows that college students today are 40 percent less empathetic than they were thirty years ago, with much of the drop.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 395db9f | Words are potentially dangerous weapons that reveal things better left unsaid. | Susan Cain | ||
| f114c11 | If you're an introvert, find your flow by using your gifts. You have the power of persistence, the tenacity to solve complex problems, and the clear-sightedness to avoid pitfalls that trip others up. You enjoy relative freedom from the temptations of superficial prizes like money and status. | Susan Cain | ||
| ea06ade | In most settings, people use small talk as a way of relaxing into a new relationship, and only once they're comfortable do they connect more seriously. Sensitive people seem to do the reverse. They "enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep," says Strickland. "When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else." On" | Susan Cain | ||
| 92f08a6 | When the introverts were asked to work at the noise level preferred by the extroverts, and vice versa, everything changed. Not only were the introverts over-aroused by the loud noise, but they also underperformed--taking an average of 9.1 trials rather than 5.8 to learn the game. The opposite was true for the extroverts--they were under-aroused (and possibly bored) by the quieter conditions, and took an average of 7.3 trials, compared with .. | Susan Cain | ||
| 5df5f06 | So stay true to your own nature. 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 multitasking, 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. Of | Susan Cain | ||
| 1075f12 | Some of our greatest ideas, art, and inventions--from the theory of evolution to van Gogh's sunflowers to the personal computer--came from quiet and cerebral people who knew how to tune in to their inner worlds and the treasures to be found there. Without introverts, the world would be devoid of: the theory of gravity the theory of relativity W. B. Yeats's "The Second Coming" Chopin's nocturnes Proust's In Search of Lost Time Peter Pan Orwe.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 886c9bb | The contrast is striking," writes Michael Harris Bond, a cross-cultural psychologist who focuses on China. "The Americans emphasize sociability and prize those attributes that make for easy, cheerful association. The Chinese emphasize deeper attributes, focusing on moral virtues and achievement." Another" | Susan Cain | ||
| 4e844d8 | The next generation of quiet kids can and should be raised to know their own strengths. | Susan Cain | ||
| d4210ef | introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation. As the influential psychologist Hans Eysenck once observed, introversion "concentrates the mind on the tasks in hand, and prevents the dissipation of energy on social and sexual matters unrelated to work." In other words, if you're in the backyard sitting under a tree while everyone else is clinking glasses on the patio, you're more likely to have an appl.. | Susan Cain | ||
| 63ec2b4 | verbal fluency and sociability are the two most important predictors of success, according to a Stanford Business School study. | Susan Cain | ||
| 619e6bf | College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups. Even elite athletes in team sports often spend unusual amounts of time in solitary practice. What | Susan Cain | ||
| d0fbf3f | introverts are uniquely good at leading initiative-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. | Susan Cain | ||
| 280b675 | We fail to realize that participating in an online working group is a form of solitude all its own. | Susan Cain | ||
| 257eb1a | Susan Cain, Harvard Law School graduate and author of the culture-shifting bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, explains, "By their nature, introverts tend to get passionate about one, two or three things in their life . . . [a]nd in the service of their passion for an idea they will go out and build alliances and networks and acquire expertise and do whatever it takes to make it happen." One need no.. | Amy Cuddy | ||
| 3475916 | Evolution is more grounded in my experience than angels. | Barack Obama | ||
| 543933f | One of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset. | Barack Obama | ||
| 13028f8 | Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat. | Barack Obama | ||
| d613b7b | L'arte raggiunge sempre la sua vetta la dove diviene ragione di vita per tutto un popolo. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 0ec8061 | I giorni solenni dell'esistenza hanno in se una luminosita piu intensa di quelli consueti. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 837cee1 | wie ein Taucher sogar, der schon ahnt, dass das Seil nach der Aussenwelt abgerissen ist und er nie zuruckgeholt werden wird aus der lautlosen Tiefe. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| c709668 | Jusqu'au dernier moment l'homme qui, doue d'une volonte prometheenne, veut arracher a la terre son secret sentira la griffe du doute lui dechirer le coeur. | doute french griffe | Stefan Zweig | |
| defccf1 | I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man. | Barack Obama | ||
| a695000 | If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun. | Barack Obama | ||
| dbe8e3b | By the way, I've been called worse on the basketball court. Its not a big deal. | Barack Obama | ||
| d9e66c0 | Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you. | Barack Obama | ||
| c6aa5e8 | Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency. | Barack Obama | ||
| 226d331 | Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now. | Barack Obama | ||
| 9d8b24b | You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done. | Barack Obama | ||
| 37d1bda | great creative gifts do not mean fulness and giving out of abundance. On the contrary the expression is that of one who seeks help and strives to emancipate himself. | Stefan Zweig | ||
| 9e387d3 | Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present. | Barack Obama | ||
| 18a2ce1 | Manmohan Singh is a wise, wonderful man. | Barack Obama | ||
| ef67912 | As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. | Barack Obama |