Quotes About Introversion

I'm so extroverted. I wanna learn how to be introverted, though.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.

It's kind of weird - I get shy when I'm around new people, still, even when I'm onstage. I come from not really wanting to be in lights or known or in front of people.

I'm not comfortable around cameras.

I hate dinner parties, you know, can't stand them. Friends don't bother inviting me any more, because they know I won't come. I could never think of anything to say between courses - it's a confidence thing, I suppose.

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that.

I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.