Isabel Briggs Myers Quotes

#1. For many Extraverts, "hell at a party" is "not being able to get in." Many introverts see it as "being there.

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#2. You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right.

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#3. The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement.

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#4. Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.

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#5. Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

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#6. ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.

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#7. Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.

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#8. What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.

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#9. Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire

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#10. By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and more of a daily adventure than it could possibly be if everyone were alike.

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#11. Much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

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#12. They [INTJs] are likely, however, to organize themselves out of a job. They cannot continually reorganize the same thing, and a finished product has no more interest. Thus, they need successive new assignments, with bigger and better problems, to stretch their powers.

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#13. We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.

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#14. The best-adjusted people are the
'psychologically patriotic,' who are glad to be what they are.

Isabel Briggs Myers