My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
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.
Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.
Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.
Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.
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. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.
What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?
I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.
Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.
Many people believe that introversion is about being antisocial, and that's really a misperception. Because actually it's just that introverts are differently social. So they would prefer to have a glass of wine with a close friend as opposed to going to a loud party full of strangers.
Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.
Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.
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.
I'm okay, you're okay - in small doses.
You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.
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