Best 225 quotes in «introvert quotes» category

When your conscientiousness impels you to take on more than you can handle, you begin to lose interest, even in tasks that normally engage you. You risk your physical health. 'Emotional labor,' which is the effort we make to control and change our own emotions, is associated with stress, burnout, and even physical symptoms like and increase in cardiovascular disease.

When you're feeling scared, genuine passion will lift you up and give you the excitement you need to propel you through your fear. Fear is a powerful enemy, but passion is an even stronger friend.

…while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.

Why do extroverts have voicemail? To never miss a call. Why do introverts have voicemail? To never answer the phone.

You are like an ocean: quietly ebbing and flowing to the rhythm of life, but wildly expansive and profoundly powerful. You are boundless. You are whole. Your quietness is your strength. Your depth is your advantage.

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.

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.

You're like me. We're not really like the others. [...] We're really better in our own company, Persephone said. It makes it hard sometimes, for others, when they can't understand us.

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.

Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.

Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

If the extrovert watches and listens a bit more, the introvert's true mood will become more evident.

I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks, so am I like Zeke? No way.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

I'm not an introvert. I'm media shy.

I'm okay, you're okay - in small doses.

I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.

I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

Introverts listen better, they assess risks more carefully, they can be wiser managers. It's not for nothing that the Silicon Valley billionaires are so often the retiring types.

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.

Introverts process information internally, and we don't like to express our thoughts until they are fully formed.

Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

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

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.

I wasn't always this introverted.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves

I was very shy and very reserved as a child, very, very introvert.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

The less you speak, the more you will hear.

Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.