Quiet Quotes

“usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. The second is production blocking: only one person can talk or produce an idea at once, while the other group members are forced to sit passively. And the third is evaluation apprehension, meaning the fear of looking stupid in front of one’s peers.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“iconoclastically.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“If you’re still not sure where you fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum, you can assess yourself here. Answer each question “true” or “false,” choosing the answer that applies to you more often than not.* ______ I prefer one-on-one conversations to group activities. ______ I often prefer to express myself in writing. ______ I enjoy solitude. ______ I seem to care less than my peers about wealth, fame, and status. ______ I dislike small talk, but I enjoy talking in depth about topics that matter to me. ______ People tell me that I’m a good listener. ______ I’m not a big risk-taker. ______ I enjoy work that allows me to “dive in” with few interruptions. ______ I like to celebrate birthdays on a small scale, with only one or two close friends or family members. ______ People describe me as “soft-spoken” or “mellow.” ______ I prefer not to show or discuss my work with others until it’s finished. ______ I dislike conflict. ______ I do my best work on my own. ______ I tend to think before I speak. ______ I feel drained after being out and about, even if I’ve enjoyed myself. ______ I often let calls go through to voice mail. ______ If I had to choose, I’d prefer a weekend with absolutely nothing to do to one with too many things scheduled. ______ I don’t enjoy multitasking. ______ I can concentrate easily. ______ In classroom situations, I prefer lectures to seminars. The more often you answered “true,” the more introverted you probably are. If you found yourself with a roughly equal number of “true” and “false” answers, then you may be an ambivert—yes, there really is such a word. But even if you answered every single question as an introvert or extrovert, that doesn’t mean that your behavior is predictable across all circumstances. We can’t say that every introvert is a bookworm or every extrovert wears lampshades at parties any more than we can say that every woman is a natural consensus-builder and every man loves contact sports. As Jung felicitously put it, “There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.” This is partly because we are all gloriously complex individuals, but also because there are so many different kinds of introverts and extroverts. Introversion and extroversion interact with our other personality traits and personal histories, producing wildly different kinds of people. So”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“One highly successful venture capitalist who is regularly pitched by young entrepreneurs told me how frustrated he is by his colleagues’ failure to distinguish between good presentation skills and true leadership ability. “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 said.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“There’s only one problem with Osborn’s breakthrough idea: group brainstorming doesn’t actually work”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Teens who are too gregarious to spend time alone often fail to cultivate their talents”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“latter”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“were.” Over time, though, Edgar stopped bringing index cards to dinner parties. He still considers himself an introvert, but he grew so deeply into his extroverted role that telling anecdotes started to come naturally to him. Indeed,”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Your degree of extroversion seems to influence how many friends you have, in other words, but not how good a friend you are.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“few “mixed” couples—HSMs and LSMs in love—even broke up over it, he was told. To high self-monitors, low self-monitors can seem rigid and socially awkward. To low self-monitors, high self-monitors can come across as conformist and deceptive—“more pragmatic than principled,” in Mark Snyder’s words. Indeed, HSMs have been found to be better liars than LSMs, which would seem to support the moralistic stance taken by low self-monitors.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Connecting people to fix the world over time is the deepest spiritual value you can have,' Newmark [Craigslist creator] has said.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“the word satyagraha implies, 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, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups,”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Nobody is going to care who won or lost any election when the earth is uninhabitable.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert energy to unnecessary skirmishes along the way.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“high”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Introverts just just don't buzz as easily.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet”—seems”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The introvert as poet or science nerd, the extrovert as jock or cheerleader? Aren’t we all a little of both?”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Bolder animals sally forth, swallowed regularly by those farther up the food chain but surviving when food is scarce and they need to assume more risk.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of paying attention to two things at the same time.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Patience”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“venal”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking