212 Quotes About Introversion

Osborn was a founding partner of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn (BBDO), but it was as an author that he really made his mark, beginning with the day in 1938 that a magazine editor invited him to lunch and asked what his hobby was. “Imagination,” replied Osborn.

Trust: it's the basis of everything else.

That Seigo could go into geisha houses, accept luncheon invitations, drop in at the Club, see people off at Shimabashi, meet them at Yokohama, run out to Oiso to humor the elders—that he could put in his appearance at large gatherings from morning to evening without seeming either triumphant or dejected—this must be because he was thoroughly accustomed to this kind of life, thought Daisuke; it was probably like the jellyfish's floating in the sea and not finding it salty.

I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good ideas.

I’m not a Sasquatch, a tortoise or even a clam,it is what it is, I am who I am.You be you, and I’ll be me,I do what I do, because it’s my preferred way to be

Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.

There are two distinct groups of people in the world: the ones who tell stories, and those who pay attention.

There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.

People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.