I'm an extrovert, I like to gesticulate and talk loud and stuff, and the theater is easy for me.
For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating.
In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.
I'm probably the most introverted extrovert you'll ever meet. Up until I got this show I was constantly told, 'She was really good, but she's just not cute enough. '
Introverts keep their best stuff inside—that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert’s behavior—and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts—is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.
After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge. . . This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.
Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.
I'm an introvert. Introverts have a huge advantage over extroverts. We can create a mission and we can act on it.
They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.
Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.
An extrovert is more likely to share immediate reactions and process information through conversation.
My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts, and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
If the extrovert watches and listens a bit more, the introvert's true mood will become more evident.
Some people are introverts and if they don't have enough time for themselves, they don't feel right. And extroverts don't feel right with too much alone time. There are those who need walks in nature or they feel depressed. Your linchpin is the pin that makes the wheel go. If you lose it, the wheel falls apart.
I am a little extrovert.
Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.
Being an extrovert isn't essential to evangelism - obedience and love are.
Extroverts are more responsive to high-intensity and "happy" stimuli, which may be why an extrovert gets frustrated at the less "readable" face of the introvert.
Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days.
