82 quotes found
Writer · American · 1968
American writer (born 1968)
“Soft power is quiet persistence.”
“Solve problems, make art, think deeply.”
“There's nothing more exciting than ideas.”
“Introverts just just don't buzz as easily.”
“Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.”
“This is the next great diversity issue of our time.”
“Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. Theyre associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.”
“Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
“What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, Ericsson told me, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in Deliberate Practice, which he has identified as the key to exceptional achieve...”
“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 p...”
“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 t...”
“It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. ...”
“Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a mans world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personali...”
“Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply”
“A Manifesto for Introverts1. There's a word for 'people who are in their heads too much': thinkers.2. Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.3. The next generation of quiet kids can and must be rais...”
“So the next time you see a person with a compose face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be d...”
“There is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions.”
“If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".”
“The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.”
“Because conflict-avoidant Emily would never bite or even hiss unless Greg had done something truly horrible, on some level she processes his bite to mean that shes terribly guiltyof something, anyt...”
“The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.”
“I need a break after school," she told me later. "School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play date without telling me, because I don...”
“Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.”
“Osborn was a founding partner of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn (BBDO), but it was as an author that he really made his mark, beginning with the day in 1938 that a maga...”
“...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that Im never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I...”
