#introvert

Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#bit #bookstore #clubs #down #esoteric

...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing? ↗

— R.D. Blackmore

#dreams

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#companion #companionship #different #extroversion #fear

God has always been about the business of shattering expectations, and in our culture, the standards of leadership are extroverted. It perfectly follows the biblical trend that God would choose the unexpected and the culturally "unfit" - like introverts - to lead his church for the sake of greater glory. ↗

— Adam S. McHugh

#church #god #introverts #leadership #business

The highest men are calm, silent and unknown...The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in the vibrations the leave behind, and upon which the lesser gurus build their doctrines. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#introvert #men #men

Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#introvert

I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#any #cast #certain #characters #different

My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#introvert #weird #funny

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships. ↗

— Gabriela Sabatini

#i #introverted #make #me #people

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. 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

#psychology #oppression