181 Quotes About Introverts
- Author Allie Ray
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Don't say much, do you?"Lars shrugged. "My English.""Yeah, your English, but you ain't much for talking regardless. I can tell."Lars offered a thin smile. "People can always tell.""What's that mean?""People say...much to me, because...eh...they know I do not stop them.
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- Author Susan Cain
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Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of use feel we must conform. Introversion is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.
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- Author Jenn Granneman
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As I learned more about introversion, I became more confident in who I was. I started accepting my need for alone time. I saw my quiet, reflective nature as a strength, not a liability
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- Author Susan Cain
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...bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them in energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama.
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- Author Rainbow Rowell
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People (new people, strangers) made Georgia nervous. And nervous Georgie was much more extroverted than regular Georgie. Nervous Georgie was practically manic.
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- Author W. Somerset Maugham
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His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless ...
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- Author Kenneth Grahame
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...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!
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- Author Montague Rhodes James
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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.
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- Author Sophia Dembling
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Introverts think carefully before they speak. We can be excellent public speakers because we prepare carefully.
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