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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
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
Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. -- Neil Peart
Extroverts are more responsive to high-intensity and "happy" stimuli, which may be why an extrovert gets frustrated at the less "readable" face of the introvert. -- Laurie Helgoe
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
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
I am a little extrovert. -- Kushal Pal Singh
I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert. -- John Thaw
Being an extrovert isn't essential to evangelism - obedience and love are. -- Rebecca Pippert
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum. -- Carl Jung
I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
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
In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent. -- Criss Jami
Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum. -- Susan Cain
I'm probably the most introverted extrovert you'll ever meet. Up until I got this show I was constantly told, 'She was really good, but she's just not cute enough.' -- Nikki Cox
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
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again. -- Anais Nin
Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own. -- Roger Moore
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party. -- Alex Kapranos
As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. -- Laurie Helgoe
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
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. -- Laurie Helgoe
That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on the back, team building, and making fun of introverts to get much done. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow responsible. -- Mark Vonnegut
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from. -- Michael Fassbender
Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo. And like jazz, once we get going, we can play all night. Extrovert conversations are more like tennis matches, where thoughts are batted back and forth, and players need to be ready to respond. Introverts get winded pretty quickly. -- Laurie Helgoe
Extroverts want us to have fun, because they assume we want what they want. And sometimes we do. But "fun" itself is a "bright" word, the kind of word that comes with flashing lights and an exclamation point! One of Merriam-Webster's definitions of "fun" is "violent or excited activity or argument." The very word makes me want to sit in a dimly lit room with lots of pillows-by myself. -- Laurie Helgoe
The only way to become an eccentric is to end your relationship with extroverts. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts. -- Susan Cain
Introverts are generally more sensitive to low-intensity stimuli - they are mentally alerted to inputs that extroverts may miss. -- Laurie Helgoe
I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it. -- Jeb Bush
I love introverts. They don't waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don't trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter. -- Alexei Maxim Russell
My folks are hilarious extroverts and have always been very supportive of all my artistic endeavors. I'm really lucky to come from such an encouraging family. -- Kate Brown
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
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
The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that's underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces. -- Kevin Drum
If the extrovert is trying to "cheer up" the introvert - extroverts are programmed to seek social rewards! - he or she may feel like a failure if the introvert remains unmoved. -- Laurie Helgoe

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