Quote

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

Susan Cain

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
Lawyer
Non-Fiction Writer
Writer
Good
Unacceptable
Shyness
Reserve
Breeding
Reserves
Mark
Though

More quotes by Susan Cain

Image
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 would never recover.
Susan Cain
Image
Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
Susan Cain
Image
One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.
Susan Cain
Image
We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it's not the children who change but their environments. As adults they get to select the careers, spouses, and social circles that suit them. They don't have to live in whatever culture they'er plunked into.
Susan Cain
Image
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
Image
One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.
Susan Cain
Image
The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.
Susan Cain
Image
There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in Tibet.
Susan Cain
Image
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
Susan Cain
Image
Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.
Susan Cain
Image
The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.
Susan Cain
Image
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
Image
What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?
Susan Cain
Image
Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.
Susan Cain
Image
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
Image
When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.
Susan Cain
Image
Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.
Susan Cain
Image
What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.
Susan Cain
Image
In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to come out of their shells - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go.
Susan Cain
Image
But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.
Susan Cain