Susan Cain Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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.

  Susan Cain

  Integrity, Home, Animal

  "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, January 24, 2012.

• America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover.

  Susan Cain

  Character, America, Personality

• Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.

  Susan Cain

  Lying, Inspiration, Persistence

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.169, Broadway Books

• We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it's not the children who change but their environments. As adults they get to select the careers, spouses, and social circles that suit them. They don't have to live in whatever culture they'er plunked into.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Kids, Circles

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.253, Broadway Books

• Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them.

  Susan Cain

  Painful Experiences, People, Feelings

  "How to Parent an Introverted Child: An Interview With Susan Cain". Interview with Sil Reynolds, www.eomega.org. June 9, 2013.

• Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

  Susan Cain

  People, Achievement, Humanity

  "Introverts Run the World - Quietly". edition.cnn.com. March 18, 2012.

• Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.

  Susan Cain

  Risk, Needs, Culture

• Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.

  Susan Cain

  Fashion, Creativity, School

  "The Rise of the New Groupthink". www.nytimes.com. January 13, 2012.

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