Top 65 Quotes About Extroverts
#1. We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia.
Aleister Crowley
#2. God has wired you to tell others in a way that allows you to be yourself. Evangelism is not just for extroverts, brainboxes or full-timers. It is your job, and in the Lord's strength you can do it. Why
Rico Tice
#3. 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
#4. As we've said many times before, Introverts get ulcers; Extroverts give ulcers.
Otto Kroeger
#5. Though some of us like to get on stage, many introverts are content to put on their invisibility cloaks and watch. But well-meaning extroverts will have none of that! They need to draw us out, invite us to participate - repeatedly - and question why we are so depressed as to not want to join.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#6. Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interacting. Extroverts have the opposite preference; they tend to gain energy by interacting and expend energy while reflecting.
Laurie Helgoe
#7. Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.
Neil Peart
#8. It can be hard for extroverts to understand how badly introverts need to recharge at the end of a busy day. We all empathize with a sleep-deprived mate who comes home from work too tired to talk, but it's harder to grasp that social overstimulation can be just as exhausting.
Susan Cain
#9. Extroverts get their energy from being around a lot of people, but introverts find large groups draining and require time alone to recharge
Sophia Amoruso
#10. I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it.
Jeb Bush
#11. My folks are hilarious extroverts and have always been very supportive of all my artistic endeavors. I'm really lucky to come from such an encouraging family.
Kate Brown
#13. I understand perfectly why some of my autistic patients scream and flap their arms
it's to frighten off extroverts
Mark Vonnegut
#14. Introverts are "geared to inspect" and extroverts "geared to respond.
Susan Cain
#17. Introverts keep their best stuff inside - that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert's behavior - and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts - is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#18. 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.
Susan Cain
#19. Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.
Susan Cain
#20. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow actually responsible.
Mark Vonnegut
#21. Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.
Jonathan Rauch
#22. This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
Harry Reasoner
#23. Extroverts get better grades than introverts during elementary school, but introverts outperform extroverts in high school and college.
Susan Cain
#24. They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.
Paulo Coelho
#25. Extroverts are not superior to introverts, and vice versa. We are different personality types with different needs and motivations. In our culture, different is scary. Extroverts have laid claim on the definition of normal, leaving introverts to feel guilty for not fitting in.
Michaela Chung
#26. While extroverts commonly feel loneliness when others are absent, introverts can feel most lonely when others are present, because ours is the aching loneliness of not being known or understood.
Adam S. McHugh
#27. She'd explained that I was an extrovert, and extroverts got their energy from being around other people. She was an introvert, and introverts got their energy from being by themselves. She needed to go home, be by herself,
Jennifer Echols
#29. Funny how addiction was socially acceptable - even a status symbol - when it made people extroverts rather than introverts
Stacia Kane
#30. Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots and practically ignore you. You have to get used to introverts, extroverts, directors who clown around for the crew, and the odd one who's monosyllabic.
Gina Bellman
#31. Often, introverts spend so much time trying to do as the extroverts do that we never ask ourselves what we really want. After years of denying our true desires, it can be difficult to separate what we want from what the world tells us to want.
Michaela Chung
#32. While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields.
Susan Cain
#33. introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with.
Susan Cain
#34. If you force extroverts to pause, says Newman, they'll do just as well as introverts at the numbers game.
Susan Cain
#35. In other words, introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.
Susan Cain
#36. I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
Larry Harvey
#37. Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.
Douglas Conant
#38. The second difference between the introvert and the extrovert is how they experience external stimulation. Extroverts like to experience a lot, and introverts like to know a lot about what they experience.
Marti Olsen Laney
#39. The danger of attending the extroverts' masquerade ball is that we surround ourselves with people who only like us for our disguise.
Michaela Chung
#40. I don't mind being a recluse, really. It seems the extroverts are always talking.
Iimani David
#41. I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.
Susan Cain
#42. Introverts function better than extroverts when sleep deprived, which is a cortically de-arousing condition
Susan Cain
#43. Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#44. Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth.
Sophia Dembling
#45. Why do extroverts have voicemail? To never miss a call.
Why do introverts have voicemail? To never answer the phone.
Devora Zack
#46. Probably the most common - and damaging - misunderstanding about personality type is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro-social.
Susan Cain
#47. Though introverts look calm on the surface, our brains are bubbling with activity, and thus we require less external stimulation than extroverts.
Adam S. McHugh
#48. Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
Anais Nin
#49. The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.
Ariel Gore
#50. The most effective teams are composed of a healthy mix of introverts and extroverts, studies show, and so are many leadership structures.
Susan Cain
#51. We are different personality types with different needs and motivations. In our culture, different is scary. Extroverts have laid claim on the definition of normal, leaving introverts to feel guilty for not fitting in. While
Michaela Chung
#52. Introverts feel "just right" with less stimulation, as when they sip wine with a close friend, solve a crossword puzzle, or read a book. Extroverts enjoy the extra bang that comes from activities like meeting new people, skiing slippery slopes, and cranking up the stereo.
Susan Cain
#53. Extroverts communicate well with others, Introverts communicate well with themselves
Pablo
#54. Being an extrovert isn't essential to evangelism - obedience and love are.
Rebecca Pippert
#55. A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
John Ortberg
#56. Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme ... If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.
Susan Cain
#57. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.
Jonathan Rauch
#58. If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".
Susan Cain
#59. After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.
Jonathan Rauch
#60. I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.
Freddie Mercury
#61. In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.
Criss Jami
#62. There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
Carl Jung
#63. I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.
Nicole Kidman
#64. I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.
Will Cuppy
#65. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.
Susan Cain
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