Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

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

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

The lessons you learn when you are knocked down will sustain you when you are up!

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

If you want to win some, you have to be winsome - be nice, be friendly and then appropriately apply the gospel.

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

I can’t undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx)

I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself.