Author of quotes: Susan Cain

In one "guide book" on beauty is written: "Passers-by will never know how much you are clever and charming, if your appearance does not tell them about it."

Without introverts, the world would have lost:
- theory of gravity of sir Isaac Newton;
- the theory of relativity of albert Einstein;
- the poem "the Second coming" by William Butler Yeats;
- Nocturnes of Frederic Chopin;
- "In search of lost time" by Marcel Proust;
- "Peter Pan" By James Barry;
- "1984" and "Animal farm" by George Orwell;
- "Schindler's list", "E. T." and "Close encounters of the third kind" by Steven Spielberg;
- Google's Sergey Brin and Larry page;
- "Harry Potter" By JK Rowling.

If you think more difficult, she said to me, then talk about the weather or about the holiday you are interested in, as conversations about moral values or ethics.

It is not that I'm so smart, ' said Einstein, who, incidentally, was an introvert. I just spend on a decision task more time.

To listen more than talk, think before you open your mouth, and often better Express their thoughts in writing than verbally. The conflict is not their element.

If you sit in the yard under a tree, while others clink glasses on the terrace, it is more likely that the Apple will fall to the head for you.

In Finland, all remarkably a lot of introverts. A typical Finnish joke: how to understand, do you Finn? Very simple. If he likes you, he will begin to look at your shoes, not your own.

In business you must be able to collect a bunch of nonsense and properly file what happened. After studying the state of large companies, you will find that among the top managers there are practically no immigrants from Asia. They hire people who know nothing about business, but know how to make good presentations.

Asia is a land of introverts, we extroverts. <...> The Americans are the most pronounced extroverts on the planet.

In his book Born to Be Good ("Born to be good") Dacher Keltner says that if he had to choose a life partner, setting it to one question on the blitz date, he would have chosen the question: "What made you embarrassed for the last time?" Asking a girl this question, Dacher carefully watch that will clench if she lips, burst into a blush and if take whether look. "Elements of embarrassment is fleeting evidence that the person respects the opinions of others, he writes. The confusion suggests that a person cares about the rules that bind us to each other". So, when choosing companion (companion) life, you must make sure that he (she) do not care what other people think. Better figure it out in advance.

Many people with a high level of reactivity become writers or pick other intellectual vocations in which "everything depends on you: you close the door, pull the blinds down and do their work. You are protected from surprises". (For the same reasons people with lower levels of education, according to Kagan, are most often office workers and truck drivers.)

Social pressure is not just a nuisance, it can change your point of view on a particular problem.

During training in Harvard business school preference for assurance. Let the CEO does not know exactly the best way to act he should certainly.

... if you have insufficient data - and often do - whether you act, or would you prefer to gather more information? What if the delay will cost you trust or you will lose the fuse? The answer is far from unambiguous. Actions based on lack of awareness lead to trouble and hesitation undermines the morale of the followers, investors will not make investments in your business, and the whole organization could collapse.