Top 100 Quotes About Introverts
#1. Funny how addiction was socially acceptable - even a status symbol - when it made people extroverts rather than introverts
Stacia Kane
#2. For many Extraverts, "hell at a party" is "not being able to get in." Many introverts see it as "being there.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields.
Susan Cain
#9. introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with.
Susan Cain
#10. Many introverts don't feel as if they know enough about a subject until they know almost everything.
Marti Olsen Laney
#11. [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
#12. If you force extroverts to pause, says Newman, they'll do just as well as introverts at the numbers game.
Susan Cain
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Introverts of the World Unite. We're Here. We're Uncomfortable. We Want to go Home.
S.W. Hubbard
#20. Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.
Isabel Briggs Myers
#21. 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
#22. Yet introverts and loners are not one and the same thing.
Anneli Rufus
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
Susan Cain
#31. 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
#32. Introverts just just don't buzz as easily.
Susan Cain
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.
Susan Cain
#36. Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.
Jenn Granneman
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. The most effective teams are composed of a healthy mix of introverts and extroverts, studies show, and so are many leadership structures.
Susan Cain
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#45. 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
#46. Introverts understand; the loneliest human in history was just happy to have a few minutes of peace and quiet.
Randall Munroe
#47. Introverts have layered personalities, and they prefer to slowly unpeel the layers as they bond with people over time.
Adam S. McHugh
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Extroverts communicate well with others, Introverts communicate well with themselves
Pablo
#53. 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
#55. 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
#56. Introverts crave meaning, so party chitchat feels like sandpaper to our psyche.
Diane Cameron
#57. I am a connoisseur of rain (all of us introverts are).
Vivian Swift
#58. Introverts don't see life as one big cocktail party. We're content with just a few meaningful relationships.
Jenn Granneman
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Probably the most common - and damaging - misunderstanding about personality type is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro-social.
Susan Cain
#62. Why do extroverts have voicemail? To never miss a call.
Why do introverts have voicemail? To never answer the phone.
Devora Zack
#63. 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
#64. Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth.
Sophia Dembling
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Introverts think carefully before they speak. We can be excellent public speakers because we prepare carefully.
Sophia Dembling
#69. Introverts function better than extroverts when sleep deprived, which is a cortically de-arousing condition
Susan Cain
#70. 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
#71. As we've said many times before, Introverts get ulcers; Extroverts give ulcers.
Otto Kroeger
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil.
Sophia Dembling
#75. 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
#76. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.
Jonathan Rauch
#77. Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.
Jonathan Rauch
#78. It's not that introverts aren't good team players. We just don't need to be in the same room as the rest of the team at all times. We would much prefer to have part of the project carved out for us to squirrel away with it in our offices, consulting as necessary but working independently.
Sophia Dembling
#79. For introverts, who have limited energy for interaction, we need to be more thoughtful and deliberate about whom we meet - which, happily, is what we do best.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#84. There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.
Ruskin Bond
#85. A few of us are extraverts. A few of us are introverts. But most of us are ambiverts, sitting near the middle, not the edges, happily attuned to those around us. In some sense, we are born to sell.
Daniel H. Pink
#86. I would admit I'm an introvert. I don't know why introverts have to apologize.
Bill Gross
#87. It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry.
John Piper
#88. I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it.
Jeb Bush
#89. 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
#90. Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.
Adam S. McHugh
#91. I'm one of the biggest introverts you could ever meet.
Tim Gunn
#92. Many introverts are shy, partly as a result of receiving the message that there's something wrong with their preference for reflection, and partly because their physiologies, as we'll see, compel them to withdraw from high-stimulation environments.
Susan Cain
#93. This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#94. Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.
Laurie Helgoe
#95. I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.
Jessica Brown Findlay
#96. Exhaustion from overstimulation is a huge problem for many introverts.
S.J. Scott
#97. Introverts are "geared to inspect" and extroverts "geared to respond.
Susan Cain
#98. Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.
[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]
John Green
#99. Because extroversion lines up so well with American values, we introverts often deprive ourselves of what we most enjoy and thrive on. So, for all of you who draw energy from inside, behind, underneath, or away from it all, welcome home.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#100. I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.
Susan Cain
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