Top 100 Quotes About Introverts
#1. The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.
Brent Runyon
#2. Carl Jung said that only an introvert could see "the unfathomable stupidity of man
Michael Finkel
#3. Funny how addiction was socially acceptable - even a status symbol - when it made people extroverts rather than introverts
Stacia Kane
#4. For many Extraverts, "hell at a party" is "not being able to get in." Many introverts see it as "being there.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#5. 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
#6. If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.
Laurie Helgoe
#7. Extraverts are comfortable thinking as they speak. Introverts prefer slow-paced interactions that allow room for thought. Brainstorming does not work for them. Email does.
Laurie Helgoe
#8. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.
Susan Cain
#9. 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
#10. I don't talk ill about people I don't know," said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.
Michelle Franklin
#11. All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the best thing to do was to tell everyone I worked with that I'm just shy. People are not mind readers - you need to let them know.
Douglas Conant
#12. While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields.
Susan Cain
#13. introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with.
Susan Cain
#14. Many introverts don't feel as if they know enough about a subject until they know almost everything.
Marti Olsen Laney
#15. [Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.
Susan Cain
#16. If you force extroverts to pause, says Newman, they'll do just as well as introverts at the numbers game.
Susan Cain
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Our extroverted culture makes introverts feel despicable for wanting to be alone. Like thieves snatching something that doesn't belong to them, we have to "steal" a moment of solitude. If only introverts could see that we have a right to our alone time. We have a right to enjoy it too. Think
Michaela Chung
#21. The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum.
Joseph Epstein
#22. Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#23. Introverts tend to avoid small talk. We'd rather talk about something meaningful than fill the air with chatter just to hear ourselves make noise.
Jenn Granneman
#24. The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.
Anneli Rufus
#25. Introverts of the World Unite. We're Here. We're Uncomfortable. We Want to go Home.
S.W. Hubbard
#26. Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#27. 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
#28. Here's a rule of thumb for networking events: one new honest-to-goodness relationship is worth ten fistfuls of business cards. Rush home afterward and kick back on your sofa. Carve out restorative niches.
Susan Cain
#29. Yet introverts and loners are not one and the same thing.
Anneli Rufus
#30. So, to all you introverts out there, do not feel embarrassed or boring for being a person who prefers things that are hygge.
Meik Wiking
#31. When introverts sense invasion, we instinctively shut down to protect our inner resources. But in doing so, we lose access to ourselves. From this defensive position, we may feel that our only options are to practice extroversion, go underground, or go crazy.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#32. 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
#33. Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.
Jeffrey Kluger
#34. For introverts, the best associations start with ideas. If you don't feel a part of your neighborhood association or the happy hour regulars after work, don't force it. The community that surrounds you may not be your community.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#35. You're very perceptive for a guy who can go a whole day without talking," she said, peering up at him. "That's why I'm perceptive.
Nicholas Sparks
#36. Introverts don't like small talk conversation, but they typically don't mind writing. The more people can "see" you on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or a blog, the more they will feel like they know you, even though you don't have one-on-one interaction with them.
Thom S. Rainer
#37. It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population. We discovered this with women decades ago, and now it's time to realize it with introverts.
Susan Cain
#38. Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
Susan Cain
#39. 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
#40. Introverts just just don't buzz as easily.
Susan Cain
#41. In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.
Florence King
#42. For many introverts like David, adolescence is the great stumbling place, the dark and tangled thicket of low self-esteem and social unease. In middle and high school, the main currency is vivacity and gregariousness; attributes like depth and sensitivity don't count for much.
Susan Cain
#43. All this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle.
Margaret Atwood
#44. I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.
Susan Cain
#45. Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.
Jenn Granneman
#46. 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
#47. Introverts are actually a lot like Clark Kent
mild and unassuming much of the time, but able to swoop in and turn on our Supercharm when we choose.
Sophia Dembling
#48. The most effective teams are composed of a healthy mix of introverts and extroverts, studies show, and so are many leadership structures.
Susan Cain
#49. Introverts' wounds usually begin in childhood. Our families of origin convey to us messages about introversion, which set us on a path of either self-acceptance or self-criticism.
Adam S. McHugh
#50. When introverts are in conflict with each other ... it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!
Adam S. McHugh
#51. As much as the world tries to tell us otherwise, our free time is ours to spend how we wish. This can be a tricky concept for introverts to fully embrace. We've been chastised so much for our personal preferences that we feel obliged to ignore them.
Michaela Chung
#52. Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.
Susan Cain
#53. 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
#54. Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#55. I'm one of those introverts with well-honed social skills, and I have even danced on the occasional table, but I have felt sheer panic when my exhaustion precedes my exit. It's like the Cinderella story with a twist: I want to get out of there and into my duds before midnight - or ten, or eight.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#56. He (Nixon) needed someone with him so he could be alone.
Rick Perlstein
#57. All my life, all I'd ever heard was: Emily's so shy, Emily's so quiet, Emily's so clever. Thinking back on it now, I don't know if I was ever any of those things, or if I just became shy and quiet and clever because everyone said I was.
Tanya Byrne
#58. Introverts understand; the loneliest human in history was just happy to have a few minutes of peace and quiet.
Randall Munroe
#59. Introverts have layered personalities, and they prefer to slowly unpeel the layers as they bond with people over time.
Adam S. McHugh
#60. 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
#61. Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.
Laurie Helgoe
#62. The next time you find yourself on the receiving end of a conversation assault, take a moment to have a little self-compassion. Remember that other introverts share your slow-talking tendencies, your hatred of small talk, and your disdain for the phone.
Michaela Chung
#63. Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.
Criss Jami
#64. Like a lot of other bashful introverts, I discovered that I like teaching a lot because it's like acting. When I stepped into the classroom, I stepped into a role, one that allowed me to forget myself.
Maureen Corrigan
#65. We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.
Jewel
#66. Extroverts communicate well with others, Introverts communicate well with themselves
Pablo
#67. What we share as introverts is the love of ideas and the desire to explore them with minimal interruption. We want and need input, but we'd rather get it through reading, research, and rich conversation than through unfiltered talk.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#69. Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe
Susan Cain
#70. whole. Introverts may be able to fit all their friends in a phone booth, but those relationships tend to be deep and rewarding.
Brian Walsh
#71. Introverts crave meaning, so party chitchat feels like sandpaper to our psyche.
Diane Cameron
#72. I am a connoisseur of rain (all of us introverts are).
Vivian Swift
#73. Introverts don't see life as one big cocktail party. We're content with just a few meaningful relationships.
Jenn Granneman
#74. 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
#75. Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.
Joyce Rachelle
#76. I don't know how introverts survived without the Internet. Or with the Internet. Actually, I don't know how we survive at all. It feels impossible.
Amy Schumer
#77. Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.
Joyce Rachelle
#78. Life isn't about just talking, it's about thinking too.
Marie Symeou
#80. Probably the most common - and damaging - misunderstanding about personality type is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro-social.
Susan Cain
#81. Why do extroverts have voicemail? To never miss a call.
Why do introverts have voicemail? To never answer the phone.
Devora Zack
#82. Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#83. Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth.
Sophia Dembling
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas,
Susan Cain
#87. Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#88. As for him, he was naturally somewhat dashed by the consciousness of duty unfulfilled, but more so by the prospect of a lawn-tennis party, which, though an inevitable evil in August, he had thought there was no occasion to fear in May.
M.R. James
#89. I've been accused my whole life of being "too sensitive". This actually kind of pisses me off, but maybe that's just because I'm too sensitive.
Sophia Dembling
#90. Introverts think carefully before they speak. We can be excellent public speakers because we prepare carefully.
Sophia Dembling
#91. Introverts function better than extroverts when sleep deprived, which is a cortically de-arousing condition
Susan Cain
#92. ...my wants are few, and at any rate I had peace and quietness and wasn't always being asked to come along and do something. And I've got such an active mind - always occupied, I assure you!
Kenneth Grahame
#93. 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
#94. Angry people scared me. Angry people who thought I was in charge scared me even more.
Amanda Hamm
#95. As we've said many times before, Introverts get ulcers; Extroverts give ulcers.
Otto Kroeger
#96. Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
Susan Cain
#97. As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.
Jenn Granneman
#98. 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
#99. Some of the world's most talented people are introverts. Without them we wouldn't have the Apple computer, the theory of relativity or Van Gogh's sunflowers.
Susan Cain
#100. If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".
Susan Cain
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