Susan Cain

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

Susan Cain

A lot of antisocial and self-defeating behavior results from people who amplify positive emotions.

Susan Cain

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

Susan Cain

All of this would be fine if more talking were correlated with greater insight, but research suggests that there’s no such link.

Susan Cain

All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we’ve seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

Susan Cain

By the time I was old enough to figure out that I was simply introverted, it was a part of my being, the assumption that there is something inherently wrong with me. I wish I could find that little vestige of doubt and remove it.

Susan Cain

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

Susan Cain

Conviction is conviction, at whatever decibel level it is expressed.

Susan Cain

Don’t mistake assertiveness or eloquence for good ideas.

Susan Cain

Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.

Susan Cain