Quotes About Introversion

I'm not a real social person, I'm shy and a lot of the business is just social.

I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.

Introverts do better alone with competition, extraverts do better in large group without competition

I am shy. Sometimes painfully shy. And it's especially painful when someone reminds me about it.

I reached Odell convinced that if I never spoke to another human being for the rest of my life, it would be too soon.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

Does anybody actually go out in L.A.? When I lived there, I'd just stay in my apartment.

I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

If that woman looks like a million dollars and puts it right in your face, that one you get away from," R.D. told him. "That one in the corner who is quiet? That's the one you go after.

Often he declined invitations, because to accept meant that he had to dust off his brogues, iron a shirt, brush down his best suit, take a bath, and splash on some cologne. He had also to be affable, to drink and be merry, to talk to strangers with whom he had no inclination to talk and with whom he was not being paid to talk. In other words, he resented having to play the part of a normal human animal.

One of the many qualities she and her mother shared was a mutual love for an event concluded. It was an inclination she fought all her life. She loved a party best when it was over and the house had been restored to order and she could sit in the quiet and replay the evening. Too often, she looked forward to the end of something-to beginning the remembering-more than the thing itself.

Some people were just meant to be alone.

I used to be very shy. I hated going to a new classroom and having to make new friends, meet new teachers, and adjust to a new environment.

When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

Some people get a little shy, you know, and it can take a certain mood or a situation or a vibe for you to relax and come out of your shell.

I was so shy, it almost paralyzed me in social settings. And as shy people know, that can become a vicious cycle: The more uncomfortable you feel around people, the more you retreat, and the more shy you get.

I'm pretty much an isolated person. I'd rather stay home and play video games.

I really think you should go out, Walter." "No, thank you. I don't like it there.

If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Do I look like a freakin' people person?

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

I'm not a very assertive person.