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...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
Lawyer
Non-Fiction Writer
Writer
True
Around
Self
Way
Competence
Esteem
Comes

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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.
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Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
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It's never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.
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Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.
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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.
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Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can.
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One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.
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I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.
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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.
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we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally
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I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.
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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.
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College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.
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The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!
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Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.
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Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.
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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?
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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.
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The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.
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