Quotes About Introversion

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.

It was always hard for me to really make friends, but that's just because I like to stay home.

I havent had the whole famous thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.

Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

But they're too shy to speak when my mother-in-law doesn't; sometimes they open their mouths to begin, but they never get as far as the first sentence. You must get used to an ocean of silence, and just swim about in it as well as you can.

I'm afraid to be shy, distant, and cold. Page 11

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

I was too shy to be confronted by any kind of audience.

I'm not fond of crowds. I'm no jittery neurotic, but I don't really want to be surrounded by a lot of people if I have a choice.

I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I'm not a complete goofball, though.

Nothing sounds worse than having to be surrounded by people you don't like in a sequined dress.

You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit.

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

People might think it lonely living on my own nearly all the time, but I never found it lonely. I always had plenty to think about, and anyway maybe I'm not so good on people.

I had no immediate knowledge of the world of Batman at all. I'm quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog.

I keep thinking what a lot I missed out on through being so introverted. I am not referring to sex but all the other things. Being sociable, I suppose.)

Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.

She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.