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The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.
~ Susan Cain
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“The limited circle is pure.”
~ Franz Kafka
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I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.
~ Ashwin Sanghi
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I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.
~ Amit Bhatia
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
~ Quentin Crisp
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People empty me. I have to get away to refill.
~ Charles Bukowski
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Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.
~ Susan Cain
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
~ Patricia Highsmith
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.
~ Julia Quinn
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Introverts keep their best stuff inside—that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert’s behavior—and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts—is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.
~ Laurie Helgoe
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Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.
~ Susan Cain
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Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.
~ Susan Cain
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Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.
~ Susan Cain
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I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
~ Nigella Lawson
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Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.
~ Susan Cain
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I restore myself when I'm alone.
~ Marilyn Monroe
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In terms of, like, instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.
~ John Mulaney
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Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.
~ Susan Cain
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.
~ Bertrand Russell
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Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you 'too much' in some ways and 'not enough' in others.
~ Laurie Helgoe
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Isn't it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not think it's a big deal that you can spend hours immersed in something that interests you-alone-but the extrovert next door has no idea how you do it.
~ Laurie Helgoe
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Aside from that i'm an introvert and i'm a quiet person. The benefit of that is I listen. It's not like my mouth is open and I broadcast everything and i'm drowning everyone out. When I'm listening to the incredible artists I work with and i'm hearing their specialized advice on what they would do with something then we can, all together, as a big collaborative group.
~ Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
~ William S. Burroughs
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
~ Albert Camus
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Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.
~ Tim LaHaye
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My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves
~ Socrates
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As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves.
~ Laurie Helgoe
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All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
~ Blaise Pascal
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Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.
~ Criss Jami
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The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.
~ Brent Runyon
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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
~ Albert Einstein
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The only thing a true introvert dislikes more than talking about himself is repeating himself.
~ Jonathan Rauch
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Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
~ Criss Jami
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Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
~ Liv Tyler
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
~ Quentin Crisp
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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
~ Virginia Woolf
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I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.
~ Laurie Helgoe
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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
~ John Bunyan
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For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.
~ Jonathan Rauch
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I'm okay, you're okay-in small doses.
~ Jonathan Rauch
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Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe
~ Susan Cain
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Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.
~ Susan Cain
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Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted, I was serious.
~ Nelson Mandela
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
~ Aldous Huxley
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What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
~ Stephen Hawking
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When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.
~ Lana Del Rey
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You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.
~ Yoko Ono
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...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.
~ Susan Cain
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Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas,
~ Susan Cain
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People say things to me like, 'It's really cool that you don't go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.' I appreciate that, but I'm kind of an introverted kind of person just by nature.
~ Emma Watson
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Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
~ Susan Cain
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In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.
~ Chris Barber
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I think a lot, but I don't say much.
~ Anne Frank
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After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.
~ Jonathan Rauch
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Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
~ Anais Nin
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Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge. My own formula is roughly two hours alone for every hour of socializing. This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression. It does not call for medication. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating. Our motto: I'm okay, you're okay-in small doses.
~ Jonathan Rauch
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Everyone shines, given the right lighting.
~ Susan Cain
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Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.
~ Laurie Helgoe
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Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.
~ Susan Cain
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
~ Oscar Wilde
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I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.
~ Bob Newhart
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
~ Napoleon Hill
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I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.
~ Jennifer Sky
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... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle.
~ Margaret Atwood
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In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.
~ Criss Jami
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Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.
~ Cheryl Strayed
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What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?
~ Susan Cain
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[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.
~ Susan Cain
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Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.
~ Susan Cain
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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...
~ Steve Wozniak
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...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?
~ R.D. Blackmore
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I'm probably the most introverted extrovert you'll ever meet. Up until I got this show I was constantly told, 'She was really good, but she's just not cute enough.'
~ Nikki Cox
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I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
~ Audrey Hepburn
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Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme...If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.
~ Susan Cain
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When an introvert cares about someone, she also wants contact, not so much to keep up with the events of the other person's life, but to keep up with what's inside: the evolution of ideas, values, thoughts, and feelings.
~ Laurie Helgoe
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In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.
~ Rollo May
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There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
~ Carl Jung
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Wise men speak because they have something to say
~ Plato
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God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
~ Charles Stanley
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Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for those who might fall into the former categories or whose company you enjoy for its own sake. And don't worry about socializing with everyone else. Relationships make everyone happier, introverts included, but think quality over quantity.
~ Susan Cain
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
~ Aristotle
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
~ Carl Jung
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
~ Lord Byron
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Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
~ Earl Nightingale
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He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
~ Stephen Chbosky
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Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.
~ Susan Cain
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Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.
~ Franz Kafka
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I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
~ Bjork
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On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
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The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.
~ Ross Macdonald
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self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion...
~ W. Somerset Maugham
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Art starts alone - and convinces society later.
~ Douglas Davis
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
~ Nikola Tesla
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The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.
~ Nikola Tesla
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
~ Carl Jung
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
~ Charles Bukowski
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People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.
~ Andy Warhol
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Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo. And like jazz, once we get going, we can play all night. Extrovert conversations are more like tennis matches, where thoughts are batted back and forth, and players need to be ready to respond. Introverts get winded pretty quickly.
~ Laurie Helgoe
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I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.
~ Marilynne Robinson
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Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.
~ Laurie Helgoe
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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.
~ Paulo Coelho
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.
~ Joss Whedon
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If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.
~ Laurie Helgoe
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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
~ Ingrid Bergman
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Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
~ Bill Bradley
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The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
~ Ramana Maharshi
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I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
~ Agatha Christie
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