Quiet Susan Cain Quotes

#1. You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit.

Jessica Raine

#2. And every day, Don wrestles with himself. Should he go back to his apartment and recharge over a quiet lunch, as he longs to do, or join his classmates?

Susan Cain

#3. Religion has deprived us of virtues.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Restorative niche' is Professor Little's term for the place you go when you want to return to your true self. It can be a physical place, like the path beside the Richelieu River, or a temporal one, like the quiet breaks you plan between sales calls.

Susan Cain

#5. I have been through the deep darkness, to appreciate the light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi - all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.

Susan Cain

#7. Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney.

Jack Paar

#8. So when introverts assume the observer role, as when they write novels, or contemplate unified field theory- or fall quiet at dinner parties- they're not demonstrating a failure or a lack of energy. They're simply doing what they're constitutionally suited for (237).

Susan Cain

#9. Soft power is quiet persistence.

Susan Cain

#10. Quiet demonstrates just how deep and disturbing is this plague of extroverts - the showoffs, risk-takers, salesmen, charmers, charlatans and politicians." - New York Post

Susan Cain

#11. It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man ... and dead.

Louis L'Amour

#12. I saw a DJ from Germany called Sven Vath. I saw him in the club, he played for six hours and I was just totally intrigued, because everything he played I'd never heard before and everything he did I'd never seen before. I was so blown away by what he did.

Tiesto

#13. The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

Joseph Joubert

#14. The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

Emily Bronte

#15. 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. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet.

Susan Cain

#16. I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

Shahrukh Khan

#17. A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

Sam Rayburn

#18. Her idea of a perfect start to the weekend is a quiet evening at the movies, just her and Greg.

Susan Cain

#19. For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt pens and yellow legal pads are a must. And my eyebrow pencil. I'm very low-maintenance.

Jackie Collins

#20. Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess sucha 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

#21. It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image.

(The mason Mutsose, in Achet-Aten).

Steven William Lawrie

#22. Lily?" a deep voice called from behind me. I didn't recognize it. I spun around and backed up as a tall, dark-haired man stepped into view. My stomach dropped. Had he been hiding between the trees?

Natasha Preston

#23. We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

Lev Grossman

#24. It's also vital to recognize that many people - especially introverts like Steve Wozniak - need extra quiet and privacy in order to do their best work.

Susan Cain

#25. Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

Susan Cain

#26. People are inherently wary and fearful. What is a person more afraid of, the paucity of their dreams or the satanic magnitude of their nightmares? Poetic inventions containing elements of truth comprise all of our nighttime dreams and ephemeral daydreams.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#27. I'm your brother. I love you, I'm right here. I'm here with you," he gasped then roared, "Nobody can take that from you!

Lucian Bane