Best 225 quotes in «introvert quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

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 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.

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

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 wasn't always this introverted.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The less you speak, the more you will hear.

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

Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.

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.

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

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

You're always first when no one's on your side.

Abbey relaxed, grateful not only that someone had thought to throw a party for her, but that she had been able to escape attending.