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Susan Cain - From the Ability category:
Everyone shines, given the right lighting. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Authority category:
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking...
I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Business category:
One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Challenge category:
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking...
Indeed, your biggest challenge may be to fully harness your strengths. 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 that you care about, you probably find that your energy is boundless. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Children category:
The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Clubs category:
Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Culture category:
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking...
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Education category:
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking...
In a way, education by its nature favors the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Energy category:
- Scientific American, January 24, 2012...
It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Expectation category:
If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Guilt category:
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking...
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)
Susan Cain - From the Health category:
Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Humanity category:
-CNN.com, March 18, 2012...
Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Ideas category:
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Individuality category:
-Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking...
In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.' (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Keys category:
-Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking...
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 that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Leadership category:
We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Life category:
The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Love category:
Love is essential, gregariousness is optional. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Opposites category:
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Opposites category:
-Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking...
All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Persistence category:
Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the 1 percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other 99 percent. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Power category:
We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Power category:
-CNN.com, March 18, 2012...
We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Profession category:
I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country... (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Relaxation category:
Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Religion category:
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)
Susan Cain - From the Rewards category:
Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Risk category:
Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Solitude category:
Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Solitude category:
-New York Times. January 15, 2012...
Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Standards category:
-Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking...
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)
Susan Cain - From the Talent category:
It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent... we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Temperament category:
Introverts 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)
Susan Cain - From the Temperament category:
-Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking...
As a child you might have overheard your parents apologize for your shyness. 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)
Susan Cain - From the Temperament category:
-Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking...
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)
Susan Cain - From the Time category:
Stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Work category:
For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, think deeply. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Worth category:
We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness. (Susan Cain)
Susan Cain - From the Writing category:
I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right. (Susan Cain)
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