Quotes About Introverts

Most people don't think of actors and people like us that are performers and out in the world as introverts, but I like to know I can trust someone first.

I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population. We discovered this with women decades ago, and now it's time to realize it with introverts.

When it comes to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do best.

there were extroverts who were excitable, and extroverts who were on an even keel; there were introverts who were quite emotional, and those who were not. He could immediately think of examples among the colonists of all four of the types.

Thank you, Texting, for ensuring that, if executed well, I'll never have to talk on the phone again in my life. This is like a stay of execution for introverts. I'd also like to take this time to thank Emojis, for helping me express my innermost feelings via cats, crying cats, devil cats, and women dressed up as cats. You really "get" me. However, I would take a lovesick cat over talking words every day of the week. (Fist bump!)

Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots and practically ignore you. You have to get used to introverts, extroverts, directors who clown around for the crew, and the odd one who's monosyllabic.

Extraverts are comfortable thinking as they speak. Introverts prefer slow-paced interactions that allow room for thought. Brainstorming does not work for them. Email does.

You see, programmers tend to be arrogant, self-absorbed introverts. We didn't get into this business because we like people.

You see, programmers tend to be arrogant, self-absorbed introverts. We didn't get into this business because we like people. Most of us got into programming because we prefer to deeply focus on sterile minutia, juggle lots of concepts simultaneously, and in general prove to ourselves that we have brains the size of a planet, all while not having to interact with the messy complexities of other people.

Introverts Unite: We're Here, We're Uncomfortable, and We Want to Go Home,

Swankie arrived at an RTR session wearing a T-shirt that said "Introverts Unite: We're Here, We're Uncomfortable, and We Want to Go Home,

When Swankie arrived at an RTR session wearing a T-shirt that said "Introverts Unite: We're Here, We're Uncomfortable, and We Want to Go Home," she got smiles and nods of acknowledgment all day.

Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.

NONLONERS BORROW A term from Jung and call us introverts. They think it makes them sound intelligent to say so.

Yet introverts and loners are not one and the same thing.

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

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.

Marcie, you don't need to read books. It's just a dumb habit for introverts.

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.

There's a degree of control that the filter of technology gives you—a control that introverts often prefer.

I don't like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they're introverts.

Susan Cain suggests that introverts actually make better leaders than extroverts. Introverts have a softer, more compassionate, servant-oriented kind of leadership, she says, that enables families, businesses, and churches to thrive.