“ Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn’t choose to go to Wonderland—but she made of it an adventure… Susan Cain
“ In other words, the four-month-olds who thrashed their arms like punk rockers did so not because they were extroverts in the making, but because their little bodies reacted strongly—they were high-rea… Susan Cain
“ Imagine you work hard to prepare a talk on a subject you care about. You get your message across, and when you finish the audience rises to its feet, its clapping sustained and sincere. One person mig… Susan Cain
“ Imagine how much better you’ll be at this sweet-spot game once you’re aware of playing it. You can set up your work, your hobbies, and your social life so that you spend as much time inside your sweet… Susan Cain
“ If you’re that rare engineer who’s an inventor and also an artist, I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone. You’re going to be best able to design revo… Susan Cain
“ If a high-reactive toddler breaks another child's toy by mistake, studies show, she often experiences a more intense mix of guilt and sorrow than a lower-reactive child would. ...but high-reactive kid… Susan Cain
“ I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a vo… Susan Cain
“ I have found that there are three key steps to identifying your own core personal projects.First, think back to what you loved to do when you were a child. How did you answer the question of what you… Susan Cain
“ I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering passengers. But when she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two,… Susan Cain
“ I could literally go years without having any friends except for my wife and kids, he says. Look at you and me. You’re one of my best friends, and how many times do we actually talk—when you call me!… Susan Cain
“ Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments—both physical and emotional—unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss—another person’s shift in mood,… Susan Cain
“ He also suffered from a certain amount of what he calls reputational confusion, in which he became known for being over-the-top effervescent, and the reputation fed on itself. This was the persona tha… Susan Cain
“ Extroverts get better grades than introverts during elementary school, but introverts outperform extroverts in high school and college. Susan Cain
“ Ericsson says that it takes approximately ten thousand hours of Deliberate Practice to gain true expertise, so it helps to start young. Susan Cain
“ Eleanor (Roosevelt) wasn’t the light, witty type he’d been expected to marry. Just the opposite: she was slow to laugh, bored by small talk, serious-minded, shy. Her mother, a fine-boned, vivacious ar… Susan Cain
“ Depending on which study you consult, one third to one half of Americans are introverts—in other words, one out of every two or three people you know. (Given that the United States is among the most e… Susan Cain
“ But even if you’re stretching yourself in the service of a core personal project, you don’t want to act out of character too much, or for too long. Remember those trips Professor Little made to the re… Susan Cain
“ At IBM, a corporation that embodied the ideal of the company man, the sales force gathered each morning to belt out the company anthem, Ever Onward, and to harmonize on the Selling IBM song, set to th… Susan Cain
“ America had shifted from what 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 of which we wo… Susan Cain
