29 Quotes by Laurie A. Helgoe

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.

Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.

Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.

Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature – from your power source.

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.

Introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity, it is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

Isn’t it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not think it’s a big deal that you can spend hours immersed in something that interests you-alone-but the extrovert next door has no idea how you do it.

This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.