Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

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.

... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.

The good news doesn't make any sense unless you know what the bad news is first, and the bad news goes pretty deep.

I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.

Agree with an idiot and you're only one step away from turning into one yourself.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

Be prepared to reinvent yourself. Be prepared to go out on a limb occasionally, and be prepared to do the things that you feel strongly about

He slipped his hands around my waist and pulled me against him, tossing the ice cream cone over his shoulder. It landed with a splat on the sidewalk. 'So does that mean I have a varsity girlfriend?'

A thought is a hard thing to control.