When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.

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.

Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separ-ateness-the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination.

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

My intention is never to hurt anybody. I'm happy when people are having a good time.

Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.

Only silence is great; all else is weakness.

Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.

Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.