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    Susan Cain
    “Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.”
    Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

  • #2
    Susan Cain
    “There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
    Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

  • #3
    Susan Cain
    “Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
    Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

  • #4
    Susan Cain
    “Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe”
    Susan Cain

  • #5
    Susan Cain
    “Everyone shines, given the right lighting.”
    Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

  • #6
    Susan Cain
    “Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.”
    Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

  • #7
    Susan Cain
    “Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.”
    Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

  • #8
    C.S. Lewis
    “Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Shauna Niequist
    “It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”
    Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

  • #11
    “It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”
    Roy Disney

  • #12
    Hannah Harrington
    “Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice.”
    Hannah Harrington, Saving June

  • #13
    Elbert Hubbard
    “It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #14
    Margaret Stohl
    “Jump or stay in the boat.”
    Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Darkness

  • #15
    Paul Arden
    “If you always make the right decision, the safe decision,
    the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.”
    Paul Arden

  • #16
    Bodie Thoene
    “What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.”
    Bodie Thoene

  • #17
    Malcolm Gladwell
    “Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”
    Malcolm Gladwell

  • #18
    Jared Diamond
    “Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.”
    Jared Diamond, Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality

  • #19
    Harry Truman
    “Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...”
    Harry S. Truman

  • #20
    Paulo Coelho
    “If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #21
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

  • #22
    Stephen  King
    “You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.”
    Stephen King, Night Shift

  • #23
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.”
    Henri J.M. Nouwen

  • #24
    Dave Barry
    “There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.”
    Dave Barry

  • #25
    Ron Hall
    “To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.”
    Ron Hall, Denver Moore

  • #26
    Criss Jami
    “There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.”
    Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

  • #27
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #28
    Rick Warren
    “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
    Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

  • #29
    Epictetus
    “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
    Epictetus

  • #30
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!”
    C. JoyBell C.



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