Introvert Quotes

I think the best thing I have is the introvert's ability to listen when you're working on something as complicated as this and you have to really be aware of everyone's specialized skills.

Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.

When I'm away from a red carpet, I'm a big introvert, I'm very quiet, and I like to sit in silence at home with my cat, Nino, who is my whole world, or most of it.

He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

Everyone shines, given the right lighting.

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

If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it.

A shy kid might look longingly at other kids playing in the schoolyard, afraid and unsure about how to approach them, but an introvert is perfectly content on her own.

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company.

It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I'm probably more of a quiet guy.

Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.

I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.

Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

I would admit Im an introvert. I dont know why introverts have to apologize.

I think Hamlet, as much as he loves his privacy and is kind of an introvert, he's a very functional introvert. When he has to be out, he can be out with people.

There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.

I think Jon Foo and my chemistry is incredible! Foo is a genuine introvert and I'm a genuine extrovert. We're the perfect ying and yang, on and off camera.

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

When a quiet introvert talks, heads turn, and that's power.

Introverts process information internally, and we don't like to express our thoughts until they are fully formed.

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.

Extroverts are more responsive to high-intensity and "happy" stimuli, which may be why an extrovert gets frustrated at the less "readable" face of the introvert.

If the extrovert is trying to "cheer up" the introvert - extroverts are programmed to seek social rewards! - he or she may feel like a failure if the introvert remains unmoved.

If the extrovert watches and listens a bit more, the introvert's true mood will become more evident.

Introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity, it is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.

I enjoy the quiet life.

I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

I was very shy and very reserved as a child, very, very introvert.

Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

I'm one of the biggest introverts you could ever meet.

There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.

Whenever they say I am outgoing, I say...We must have met on the dance floor