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Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power. -- Laurie Helgoe
Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity. -- Pearl S. Buck
Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. -- Susan Cain
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology. -- Susan Cain
My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion. -- Carrie Fisher
Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured. -- Susan Cain
The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness. -- Susan Cain
Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree. -- Susan Cain
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas. -- Al Gore
The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion. -- B. F. Skinner
It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. -- Susan Cain
We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness. -- Susan Cain
Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not. -- Susan Cain
All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side. -- Susan Cain
His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community. -- Carl Jung
Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers. -- Susan Cain
To a greater or lesser extent there goes on in every person a struggle between two forces: the longing for privacy and the urge to go places: the introversion, interest directed within oneself toward one's own inner life of vigorous thought and fancy; and extroversion, interest directed outward, toward the external world of people and tangible values. -- Vladimir Nabokov
[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves. -- Isabel Briggs Myers
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

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