Quotes About Introverts And Extroverts

#1. The most effective teams are composed of a healthy mix of introverts and extroverts, studies show, and so are many leadership structures.

Susan Cain

#2. I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it.

Jeb Bush

#3. As we've said many times before, Introverts get ulcers; Extroverts give ulcers.

Otto Kroeger

#4. 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

#5. If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".

Susan Cain

#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. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.

Jonathan Rauch

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Introverts function better than extroverts when sleep deprived, which is a cortically de-arousing condition

Susan Cain

#13. Introverts are "geared to inspect" and extroverts "geared to respond.

Susan Cain

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow actually responsible.

Mark Vonnegut

#17. 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

#18. Extroverts get better grades than introverts during elementary school, but introverts outperform extroverts in high school and college.

Susan Cain

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Funny how addiction was socially acceptable - even a status symbol - when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

Stacia Kane

#25. 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

#26. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.

Susan Cain

#27. 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

#28. While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields.

Susan Cain

#29. introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with.

Susan Cain

#30. If you force extroverts to pause, says Newman, they'll do just as well as introverts at the numbers game.

Susan Cain

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

Susan Cain

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. Extroverts communicate well with others, Introverts communicate well with themselves

Pablo

#39. 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

#40. Probably the most common - and damaging - misunderstanding about personality type is that introverts are antisocial and extroverts are pro-social.

Susan Cain

#41. Why do extroverts have voicemail? To never miss a call.

Why do introverts have voicemail? To never answer the phone.

Devora Zack

#42. Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth.

Sophia Dembling

#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