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What we share as introverts is the love of ideas and the desire to explore them with minimal interruption. We want and need input, but we'd rather get it through reading, research, and rich conversation than through unfiltered talk.
Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow actually responsible.
Being an extrovert isn't essential to evangelism - obedience and love are.
Many introverts are shy, partly as a result of receiving the message that there's something wrong with their preference for reflection, and partly because their physiologies, as we'll see, compel them to withdraw from high-stimulation environments.
Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
I'm not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don't have that personality.
When inhibition has become the de facto setting in a person's manner, stiffness and lack of spontaneity produces an unnatural self-repression. Life looks gray, dull, and rigid, without space for relaxation or play to burst forth in natural ways.
Solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public ... [p. 7]
Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.
Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.
Some of the world's most talented people are introverts. Without them we wouldn't have the Apple computer, the theory of relativity or Van Gogh's sunflowers.
Isn't it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not think it's a big deal that you can spend hours immersed in something that interests you - alone - but the extrovert next door has no idea how you do it.
Excitements make you Energetice.
I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.
Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.
In other words, introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.
Appreciate youthful exuberance.
Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth.
In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.
When someone speaks to an introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity. It is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.
I wasn't an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted.
It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.
We are different personality types with different needs and motivations. In our culture, different is scary. Extroverts have laid claim on the definition of normal, leaving introverts to feel guilty for not fitting in. While
Curiosity is the main energy...
Activity is contagious.
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
The field of extrospection is based on two cardinal questions: "What do I know?" and "How do I know it?" In the field of introspection, the two guiding questions are: "What do I feel?" and "Why do I feel it?" Most
Smile ... Expand HappinesS ...
Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.
There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extrovert.
All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider decorous. Without impulses, we could take no part in social life; on the other hand, without inhibitions, we could not correct, direct, and utilize our impulses.
(You wouldn't be reading this book if I hadn't convinced my publisher that I was enough of a pseudo-extrovert to promote it.)
The practice of being at ease also gives you the strength and stamina to pursue all that you find when you connect inward.
When an introvert cares about someone, she also wants contact, not so much to keep up with the events of the other person's life, but to keep up with what's inside: the evolution of ideas, values, thoughts, and feelings.
Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion you'd still be the same rank.
Their power to see environments as they really are.
I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.
Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.
The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.
Extroverts get better grades than introverts during elementary school, but introverts outperform extroverts in high school and college.
Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
I'm an introvert who can fake being an extrovert. I love people, but they exhaust me.
Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything.
Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.
Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
For the introvert, conversation can be a very limited forum for self-expression. When a song moves you, a writer "gets" you, or a theory enlightens you - you and its creator are connecting in a realm beyond sight or speech.
What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience.
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Self-awareness is self adventure.
Empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.
At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot externalize by rational means.
Action is your power pusher to new behaviors that open your heart to freedom.
Extraverts are comfortable thinking as they speak. Introverts prefer slow-paced interactions that allow room for thought. Brainstorming does not work for them. Email does.
Concentration, the suspension of time, an unobtrusive wit.
I'm a real extrovert, but when I'm round someone new, I'm super shy.
An open and receptive attention to and awareness of what is occurring in the present moment
But as Max tugged him out the door a different feeling stole over him, something strange, behind the regret, deeper than the mourning. It wasn't until much later that he was able to identify it.
Excitment.
Society is itself an education in the extrovert values, and rarely has there been a society that has preached them so hard. No man is an island, but how John Donne would writhe to hear how often, and for what reasons, the thought is so tiresomely repeated.
one's innate desire for escape.' Everyone needs to escape, don't they? In one way or another, I mean.
Allow motion to equal emotion.
Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.
Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world,
In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.
Introverts are "geared to inspect" and extroverts "geared to respond.
To develop understanding and compassion for who we are as introverts, we must be able to explore who we are, what makes us happy, what makes us unhappy, and what our
subsequent needs are.
An unexplicable sense of happiness
It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out ...
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Urge to come to terms with the "Outside," by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't come out, you must come in to me. Into my womb-garden where I peer out. Where I can construct a universe within the skull, to rival the real.
Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.
Emotional exhibitionism is one block away from whoring for attention.
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.
Extraverts, in other words, often stumble over themselves. They can talk too much and listen too little, which dulls their understanding of others' perspectives. They can fail to strike the proper balance between asserting and holding back, which can be read as pushy and drive people away.*
I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
Introverts just just don't buzz as easily.
Surrounding yourself with others ...
Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.
Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
Eccentricity is the universal trait of humanity.
Most Empaths do not like being alone, yet we often crave solitude and need privacy. If
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with.
Meta-pleasures afforded to us by the exercise of our emotions.
exasperating composure.
People feel good about doing things with you if you're enthusiastic.
I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.
Amiability shines by its own light.
There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.
Personality with
Imagination", one of nature's most powerful forces.
Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.