Top 30 Isabel Briggs Myers Quotes
#1. 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.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#2. He talked with more claret than clarity
Susan Ertz
#3. There's nothing like getting in trouble to make you feel young.
Elizabeth Berg
#4. Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
Mohsin Hamid
#5. Not friends. Nor did I have any idea of how to fix things with her, if that was even possible. Conner lowered his voice and continued,
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#6. The best-adjusted people are the
'psychologically patriotic,' who are glad to be what they are.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#7. 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.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#8. You look peaceful," he tells her. "Maybe that's what a man feels when he stands before a firing squad. There is nothing one can do to delay the inevitable, and so it's best just to stand tall." Morton
Jennie Fields
#9. Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.
Matt Kemp
#10. When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#11. 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.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#12. 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.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#13. In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to Congress by the Constitution.
Wright Patman
#14. Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara ... I'm a f****n' princess!
Gerard Way
#16. For many Extraverts, "hell at a party" is "not being able to get in." Many introverts see it as "being there.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#17. 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
Isabel Briggs Myers
#18. What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#19. Big fucking mistake man. You can't be near her. Don't you get it? [ ... ] She's part of this city. Do you see? I mean, really part of it. You hurt her, you - hurt all of this.
Christopher Fowler
#20. 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.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#21. ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#22. 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.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#23. Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#24. If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
Barry Humphries
#25. Famous INFPs include Isabel Myers (creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), St. John the disciple, Carl Rogers, Princess Diana, George Orwell, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Rogers, A.A. Milne, Helen Keller, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Julia Roberts, and William Shakespeare.
Molly Owens
#26. Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?
Neil Gaiman
#27. The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#29. You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#30. The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about God.
Emil Cioran
