Quiet Quotes

“Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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

“The lesson, says Collins, is clear. We don’t need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“queremos avanzar en nuestra profesión, se espera de nosotros que hagamos publicidad desvergonzada de nuestra propia persona.”
― Susan Cain, QUIET

“and introverts, who sometimes feel as if their propensity for problem talk makes them a drag, should know that they make it safe for others to get serious.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Lykken has controversially called psychopaths and heroes “twigs on the same genetic branch.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Some high-reactives love public speaking and performing, and plenty of extroverts have stage fright; public speaking is the number-one fear in America, far more common than the fear of death. Public speaking phobia has many causes,”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“No!” Kagan exclaims. “Every behavior has more than one cause. Don’t ever forget that!”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“I feel horribly uncomfortable on my first day in a foreign city, but I love to travel. I was shy as a child, but have outgrown the worst of it. Furthermore, I don’t think these contradictions are so unusual; many people have dissonant aspects to their personalities. And people change profoundly over time, don’t they? What about free will—do we have no control over who we are, and whom we become?”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Can we really reduce an introverted or extroverted personality to the nervous system its owner was born with?”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“But are biological explanations for introversion wholly satisfying?”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Perhaps social media affords us the control we lack in real life socializing: the screen as a barrier between us and the world.” Then”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Depending on which study you consult, one third to one half of Americans are introverts—in other words, one out of every two or three people you know.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Grant says it makes sense that 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. Having benefited from the talents of their followers, they are then likely to motivate them to be even more proactive. Introverted leaders create a virtuous circle of proactivity, in other words.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Welch makes a fair point. Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas can be shared quietly, they can be communicated in writing, they can be packaged into highly produced lectures, they can be advanced by allies. The trick for introverts is to honor their own styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard’s education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of available power, but to use well the kind you’ve been granted. Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn’t choose to go to Wonderland—but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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

“Whoever you are, 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. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The Internet’s role in promoting face-to-face group work is especially ironic because the early Web was a medium that enabled bands of often introverted individualists—people much like the solitude-craving thought leaders Farrall and Kronborg describe—to come together to subvert and transcend the usual ways of problem-solving.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“These early findings suggest that groups are like mind-altering substances.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“the conformists showed less brain activity in the frontal, decision-making regions and more in the areas of the brain associated with perception. Peer pressure, in other words, is not only unpleasant, but can actually change your view of a problem.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“introverts enjoy shutting the doors to their offices and plunging into their work, because for them this sort of quiet intellectual activity is optimally stimulating,”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“1921 the influential psychologist Carl Jung had published a bombshell of a book, Psychological Types, popularizing the terms introvert and extrovert as the central building blocks of personality. Introverts are drawn to the inner world of thought and feeling, said Jung, extroverts to the external life of people and activities. Introverts focus on the meaning they make of the events swirling around them; extroverts plunge into the events themselves. Introverts recharge their batteries by being alone; extroverts need to recharge when they don’t socialize enough.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The highly sensitive tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They often describe themselves as creative or intuitive. They dream vividly, and can often recall their dreams the next day. They love music, nature, art, physical beauty. They feel exceptionally strong emotions--sometimes acute bouts of joy, but also sorrow, melancholy, and fear. Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments--both physical and emotional--unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss--another person's shift in mood, say, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“She had two hardy elder siblings and was the only child in her family who liked to daydream, and play inside, and whose feelings were easily hurt.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“T. S. Eliot’s famous 1915 poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock—in which he laments the need to “prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet”—”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase” and pin you, wriggling, to a wall.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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

“The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd. “There comes a time that people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression,” he tells them. “There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amidst the piercing chill of an Alpine November.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking