“ Я всегда был лошадью в одноконной упряжке; я не создан для тандема или командной работы... ведь я хорошо знаю: для достижения определенной цели очень важно, чтобы один человек и мыслил, и повелевал{1}… Susan Cain
“ Психолог Ганс Айзенк, интроверсия «позволяет сосредоточить мысли на решаемых задачах и не расходовать энергию на социальные и сексуальные раздражители, не имеющие отношения к работе». Susan Cain
“ Where we stumble is where our treasure lies.For many introverts like David, adolescence is the great stumbling place, the dark and tangled thicket of low self-esteem and social unease. In middle and h… Susan Cain
“ When she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature. They said she was timid and shy but had the courage of a lion. They we… Susan Cain
“ We organize many of our most important institutions—our schools and our workplaces—tells a very different story. It’s the story of a contemporary phenomenon that I call the New Groupthink—a phenomenon… Susan Cain
“ They wanted their son to pursue a career in religion or education, not sales. It seems unlikely that they would have approved of a self-improvement technique called Truth or Lie. Or, for that matter,… Susan Cain
“ Some people wish to fit harmoniously into the group, and others to be independent of it. Often the most highly creative people are in the latter category. Susan Cain
“ Sensitive types think in an unusually complex fashion. It may also help explain why they’re so bored by small talk. If you’re thinking in more complicated ways, she told me, then talking about the wea… Susan Cain
“ Many introverts are shy, partly as a result of receiving the message that there’s something wrong with their preference for reflection, and partly because their physiologies, as we’ll see, compel them… Susan Cain
“ How did we go from Character to Personality without realizing that we had sacrificed something meaningful along the way? Susan Cain
“ Conformists showed less brain activity in the frontal, decision-making regions and more in the areas of the brain associated with perception. Peer pressure, in other words, is not only unpleasant, but… Susan Cain
“ Child guidance experts of the 1920s set about helping children to develop winning personalities. Until then, these professionals had worried mainly about sexually precocious girls and delinquent boys,… Susan Cain
“ You may be so busy trying to appear like a zestful, reward-sensitive extrovert that you undervalue your own talents, or feel underestimated by those around you. But when you’re focused on a project th… Susan Cain
“ Without introverts, the world would be devoid of: the theory of gravity the theory of relativity W. B. Yeats’s The Second Coming Chopin’s nocturnes Proust’s In Search of Lost Time Peter Pan Orwell’s N… Susan Cain
“ What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in deliberate practice. This is the key to exceptional achievement. Susan Cain
“ We tend to think of coolness as a pose that you strike with a pair of sunglasses, a nonchalant attitude, and drink in hand. But maybe we didn't choose these social accessories at random. Maybe we've a… Susan Cain
“ We perceive talkers as smarter than quiet types—even though grade-point averages and SAT and intelligence test scores reveal this perception to be inaccurate. Susan Cain
“ We often marvel at how introverted, geeky kids blossom into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it’s not the children who change but their environments. As adults,… Susan Cain
“ We all write our life stories as if we were novelists, McAdams believes, with beginnings, conflicts, turning points, and endings. And the way we characterize our past setbacks profoundly influences ho… Susan Cain
