Hiding in the Bathroom Quotes

“kitchen cabinet is made up of people of different skills and professional backgrounds who will push you in different directions and into different arenas—and, ideally, become true friends. Diversity is key: no pale, male, and stale groupthink here!”
― Morra Aarons-Mele, Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There When You'd Rather Stay Home – A Breakthrough Guide for Introverts on Career Success and Work-Life Balance

“Data prove that even a small interaction with another person outside your family unit increases personal and group happiness (yes, even for introverts).”
― Morra Aarons-Mele, Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There When You'd Rather Stay Home – A Breakthrough Guide for Introverts on Career Success and Work-Life Balance

“Workers that resist the ideal pay a price.”
― Morra Aarons-Mele, Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There When You'd Rather Stay Home – A Breakthrough Guide for Introverts on Career Success and Work-Life Balance

“She’s learned that she needs to work with her managers and her colleagues to find a way that allows her to see feedback ahead of time, for example, so she processes it and prepares instead of feeling blindsided and anxious.”
― Morra Aarons-Mele, Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There When You'd Rather Stay Home – A Breakthrough Guide for Introverts on Career Success and Work-Life Balance

“I’ve come to think my anxiety and I are actually in successful negotiation, and we’re trying to make this relationship work. Yes, anxiety can be a gift”
― Morra Aarons-Mele, Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There When You'd Rather Stay Home – A Breakthrough Guide for Introverts on Career Success and Work-Life Balance

“Some call it leaning out, but I think it’s growing something new.”
― Morra Aarons-Mele, Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There When You'd Rather Stay Home – A Breakthrough Guide for Introverts on Career Success and Work-Life Balance

“Work+Life Fit was developed by Cali Yost, an international workplace strategy expert. It honors the notion that no two people want the exact same integration of work and personal life. (Which is why your boss may be e-mailing you at midnight, not because she thinks you need to work harder, but because she’s a night owl.)”
― Morra Aarons-Mele, Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There When You'd Rather Stay Home – A Breakthrough Guide for Introverts on Career Success and Work-Life Balance

“As we know, ambitious women are under constant pressure to produce and achieve, much of it self-inflicted. If you’re a size six, get to four! If you get $1 million in sales, go for $1.5!”
― Morra Aarons-Mele, Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There When You'd Rather Stay Home – A Breakthrough Guide for Introverts on Career Success and Work-Life Balance

“What I immediately loved about Jessica’s story, and what I tell myself now when I feel like I’m working on autopilot, is that it’s a gift to do just enough work sometimes, and it doesn’t hurt you to change your pace.”
― Morra Aarons-Mele, Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There When You'd Rather Stay Home – A Breakthrough Guide for Introverts on Career Success and Work-Life Balance

“Know that it's okay to make your dreams and your career a little smaller in order to have the complete life you want.”
― Morra Aarons-Mele, Hiding in the Bathroom: An Introvert's Roadmap to Getting Out There (When You'd Rather Stay Home) – A Practical Career Success Guide for Introverts Seeking Balance and Happiness

“This stopping of the movement outwards is not self-defense, but rather an effort to have the response come from within, from the deepest part of one's being.”
― Morra Aarons-Mele, Hiding in the Bathroom: An Introvert's Roadmap to Getting Out There (When You'd Rather Stay Home) – A Practical Career Success Guide for Introverts Seeking Balance and Happiness

“Much of what we think we must do to succeed is unnecessary and even counterproductive.”
― Morra Aarons-Mele, Hiding in the Bathroom: How to Get Out There When You'd Rather Stay Home – A Breakthrough Guide for Introverts on Career Success and Work-Life Balance