One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.

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.

His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I’d put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.

Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!

God only speaks to those who understand the language

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

To be satisfied with little is hard, to be satisfied with a lot is impossible.

[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.