Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree. - Susan Cain - Quotesmemo.com

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On the economy, the U. S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will. . . a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them.

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Susan Cain

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

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The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

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Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.

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Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

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