Matthew A. LaPine

“Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything. —ROBERT RUBIN, In an Uncertain World”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Over-arousal doesn’t produce anxiety so much as the sense that you can’t think straight—that you’ve had enough and would like to go home now. Under-arousal is something like cabin fever. Not enough is happening: you feel itchy, restless, and sluggish, like you need to get out of the house already.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“If “fast” and “slow” animals had parties, writes the evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, “some of the fasts would bore everyone with their loud conversation, while others would mutter into their beer that they don’t get any respect.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“and you're welcome to whatever you put a name to." Thus entreated, the two gentlemen (Mr. Weevle especially) put names to so many things that in course of time they find it difficult to put a name to anything quite distinctly,”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House