Top 500 Susan Cain Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Eleanor Roosevelt became the first First Lady to hold a press conference, address a national convention, write a newspaper column, and appear on talk radio.”

— Susan Cain

452. “High-reactive children raised in supportive environments are even more resistant than other kids to the common cold and other respiratory illnesses, but get sick more easily if they’re raised in stressful conditions.”

— Susan Cain

453. “It’s just the most amazing thing to see the introvert revolution literally remaking the way we organize society – this time, the world of book clubs.”

— Susan Cain

454. “Many Asian cultures are team-oriented, but not in the way that Westerners think of teams. Individuals in Asia see themselves as part of a greater whole – whether family, corporation, or community – and place tremendous value on harmony within their group. They often subordinate their own desires to the group’s interests, accepting their place in its hierarchy.”

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455. “If you’re not an introvert yourself, you are surely raising, managing, married to, or coupled with one.”

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456. “Buzz is JFK’s Camelot, but it’s also the Kennedy Curse.”

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457. “Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack of interest in dominating social situations, introverts are more likely to hear and implement suggestions.”

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458. “Introversion – along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness.”

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459. “If you had gathered the same people who created Linux, installed them in a giant conference room for a year, and asked them to devise a new operating system, it’s doubtful that anything so revolutionary would have occurred.”

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460. “In China there was more emphasis on listening, on asking questions rather than holding forth, on putting others’ needs first. In the United States, he feels, conversation is about how effective you are at turning your experiences into stories, whereas a Chinese person might be concerned with taking up too much of the other person’s time with inconsequential information.”

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461. “Brigham Young University management professor Bradley Agle studied the CEOs of 128 major companies and found that those considered charismatic by their top executives had bigger salaries but not better corporate performance.”

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462. “So don’t mistake your child’s caution in new situations for an inability to relate to others. He’s recoiling from novelty or overstimulation, not from human contact.”

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463. “Soft power is not limited to moral exemplars like Mahatma Gandhi. Consider, for example, the much-ballyhooed excellence of Asians in fields like math and science. Professor Ni defines soft power as “quiet persistence,” and this trait lies at the heart of academic excellence as surely as it does in Gandhi’s political triumphs. Quiet persistence requires sustained attention – in effect restraining one’s reactions to external stimuli.”

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464. “It’s an authentic and elevating response to the problem of being alive in a deeply flawed yet stubbornly beautiful world.”

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465. “FDR, elected at the start of the Depression, is remembered for his compassion. But it was Eleanor who made sure he knew how suffering Americans felt.”

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466. “People would always tell me, ‘These are the best years of your life,’ ” he recalls. “And I would think to myself, I hope not! I hated school.”

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467. “Just like a twenty-one-year-old, I’m still full of plans and ideas and excitement. But I have an acute consciousness, which I lacked fifteen years ago, that time is limited. This gives me no anxiety, at least not yet; but it does make me feel as if I should soak everything up while I still can. Carstensen told me that this was typical of midlife.”

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468. “We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.”

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469. “Introverts are drawn to the inner world of thought and feeling, said Jung, extroverts to the external life of people and activities.”

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470. “At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability.”

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471. “He hated small talk, and his interests were out of step with those of his peers.”

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472. “When someone asks us “How are things?” we may give a throwaway answer, but our true response is a function of how well our core personal projects are going.”

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473. “Why are some people talkative while others measure their words? Why.”

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474. “They like to read; for them there’s nothing more exciting than ideas. And some of this has to do with how they spent their time when they were growing up.”

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475. “Even T. S. Eliot’s famous 1915 poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock – in which he laments the need to “prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”

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476. “The day arrived when he stood to take the oath, at which point the chief justice ordered him to take off his turban. Gandhi saw his true limitations then. He knew that resistance would be justified, but believed in picking his battles, so he took off his headgear. His friends were upset. They said he was weak, that he should have stood up for his beliefs. But Gandhi felt that he had learned “to appreciate the beauty of compromise.”

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477. “The stereotype of the university professor is accurate for so many people on campus. They like to read; for them there’s nothing more exciting than ideas. And some of this has to do with how they spent their time when they were growing up. If you spend a lot of time charging around, then you have less time for reading and learning. There’s only so much time in your life.”

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478. “Gandhi’s passivity was not weakness at all. It meant focusing on an ultimate goal and refusing to divert energy to unnecessary skirmishes along the way.”

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479. “At the onset of the Culture of Personality, we were urged to develop an extroverted personality for frankly selfish reasons.”

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480. “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.”

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481. “The one and only personality trait the effective ones I have encountered did have in common was something they did not have: they had little or no ‘charisma’ and little use either for the term or what it signifies.” Supporting Drucker’s claim, Brigham Young University management professor Bradley Agle studied the CEOs of 128 major companies and found that those considered charismatic by their top executives had bigger salaries but not better corporate performance. We.”

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482. “Many introverts seem to know these things instinctively, and resist being herded together.”

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483. “No one can hear her. No one tries.”

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484. “The risk with our students is that they’re very good at getting their way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going the right way.” If we assume that quiet and loud people have roughly the same.”

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485. “Your degree of extroversion seems to influence how many friends you have, in other words, but not how good a friend you are.”

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486. “He wasn’t concerned with getting credit or even with being in charge; he simply assigned work to those who could perform it best. This meant delegating some of his most interesting, meaningful, and important tasks – work that other leaders would have kept for themselves. Why did the research not reflect the talents of people like the.”

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487. “We fail to realize that participating in an online working group is a form of solitude all its own.”

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488. “We’re built to live simultaneously in love and loss, bitter and sweet.”

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489. “All the comments from childhood still ring in my ears, that I was lazy, stupid, slow, boring.”

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490. “Extroverts need to know that introverts – who often seem to disdain the superficial – may be only too happy to be tugged along to a more lighthearted place; and introverts, who sometimes feel as if their propensity for problem talk makes them a drag, should know that they make it safe for others to get serious.”

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491. “If the idea is good, people shift. If the cause is just and you put heart into it, it’s almost a universal law: you will attract people who want to share your cause.”

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492. “We don’t need giant personalities to transform companies.”

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493. “The number of Americans who considered themselves shy increased from 40 percent in the 1970s to 50 percent in the 1990s, probably because we measured ourselves against ever higher standards of fearless self-presentation.”

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494. “But Edgar is an avowed introvert. “I’d much rather sit and read and think about things than talk to people,” he says.”

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495. “While introverted Chinese-American twelve-year-olds felt perfectly fine about themselves – presumably because they still measured themselves according to their parents’ traditional value systems – by the time they got to be seventeen and had been more exposed to America’s Extrovert Ideal, their self-regard had taken a nosedive.”

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496. “Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of use feel we must conform. Introversion is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.”

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497. “An Inconvenient Truth – a film whose most stirring action scenes involve the solitary figure of Gore wheeling his suitcase through a midnight airport.”

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498. “The one exception to this is online brainstorming. Groups brainstorming electronically, when properly managed, not only do better than individuals, research shows; the larger the group, the better it performs. The same is true of academic research – professors who work together electronically, from different physical locations, tend to produce research that is more influential than those either working alone or collaborating face-to-face.”

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499. “Mike sounded dismissive of Western communication styles, but he admitted that he sometimes wished he could be noisy and uninhibited himself. “They’re more comfortable with their own character,” he said of his Caucasian classmates. Asians are “not uncomfortable with who they are, but are uncomfortable with expressing who they are. In a group, there’s always that pressure to be outgoing. When they don’t live up to it, you can see it in their faces.”

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500. “Remember that there are many paths to a satisfying life.”

— Susan Cain