“ College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups. Even elite athletes in team sports often spend unusual amounts of time in solitary practice. Susan Cain
“ Career counselor Shoya Zichy told me the story of one of her clients, an introverted financial analyst who worked in an environment where she was either presenting to clients or talking to colleagues… Susan Cain
“ At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability. Susan Cain
“ At the onset of the Culture of Personality, we were urged to develop an extroverted personality for frankly selfish reasons—as a way of outshining the crowd in a newly anonymous and competitive societ… Susan Cain
“ As she grew older and ventured outside her family's orbit, she continued to notice things about herself that seemed different from the norm. She could drive alone for hours and never turn on the radio… Susan Cain
“ As children, our classroom desks are increasingly arranged in pods, the better to foster group learning, and research suggests that the vast majority of teachers believe that the ideal student is an e… Susan Cain
“ And every day, Don wrestles with himself. Should he go back to his apartment and recharge over a quiet lunch, as he longs to do, or join his classmates? Susan Cain
“ Americans revered action and were suspicious of intellect, associating the life of the mind with the languid, ineffectual European aristocracy they had left behind. Susan Cain
“ America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality—and opened up a Pandora’s Susan Cain
“ America had shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality—and opened up a Pandora’s Box of personal anxieties from which… Susan Cain
“ Although we often hang back in group situations, evidence proves that introverts make strong leaders - often delivering better outcomes than extroverted leaders do. Yes, you read that right - not just… Susan Cain
“ A very different study, in which robots interacted with stroke patients during physical rehabilitation exercises, yielded strikingly similar results. Introverted patients responded better and interact… Susan Cain
“ A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent van Gogh. I prefer to think that the planet needs athletes, philosophers, sex… Susan Cain
“ A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups. —WILLIAM JAMES Susan Cain
“ Keltner even says that if he had to choose his mate by asking a single question at a speed-dating event, the question he would choose is: What was your last embarrassing experience? Then he would watc… Susan Cain
“ You wouldn’t be reading this book if I hadn’t convinced my publisher that I was enough of a pseudo-extrovert to promote it.) Susan Cain
“ Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.) Susan Cain
“ Работайте в одиночку. Вы сможете создавать революционные продукты с лучшими характеристиками, если будете работать над ним самостоятельно. Не в составе группы. Не в составе команды. Susan Cain
“ When introverts assume the observer role, as when they write novels, or contemplate unified field theory—or fall quiet at dinner parties—they’re not demonstrating a failure of will or a lack of energy… Susan Cain
“ What she meant by creative, she answered without missing a beat. You have to be outgoing, fun, and jazzed up to work here. Susan Cain
