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We need systems that reward the best ideas, not the best presenters. (Susan Cain)
The key to maximizing talents is to put yourself into the zone of stimulation that's right for you. View quote
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Where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum... influences our choice of friends and partners, and how we make conversation, resolve differences and show love. It affects the careers we choose and whether or not we succeed at them. View quote
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Being able to exist in a place where light and dark meet is actually not a recipe for unhappiness. It is a recipe for a deeper kind of happiness. View quote
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Our difficulty accepting impermanence is the heart of human suffering. View quote
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How did a nation founded on so much heartache turn into a culture of normative smiles? View quote
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Whatever pain you can't get rid of, make it your creative offering. View quote
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We like art forms that express our longing for union, and for a more perfect and beautiful world. View quote
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Upbeat tunes make us want to dance around our kitchens and invite friends for dinner. But it's sad music that makes us want to touch the sky. View quote
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In fact, you could say that what orients a person to the bittersweet is a heightened awareness of finality. View quote
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It doesn't matter whether we consider ourselves "secular" or "religious": in some fundamental way, we're all reaching for the heavens. (Susan Cain)
The secret that our poets and philosophers have been trying to tell us for centuries, is that our longing is the great gateway to belonging. View quote
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The tragedy of life is linked inescapably with its splendor; you could tear civilization down and rebuild it from scratch, and the same dualities would rise again. Yet to fully inhabit these dualities-the dark as well as the light-is, paradoxically, the only way to transcend them. View quote
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To me, one of the best things in the world is that sublime moment when a writer, artist, or musician manages to express something you've always felt but never articulated, or at least never quite so beautifully. View quote
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There's something about writing books that gives us the permission to discuss things that aren't as easy to talk about in everyday life. To me, the whole point of writing books is to look at the unexamined, the unspeakable, and the unarticulated. View quote
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Human beings are a meaning-making species. View quote
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When you listen to music, you can transcend your own pain and turn towards another and feel bonded with the whole of humanity because you know that they have felt that grief and love. By expressing it, by communing with that song or picture, you realize you are not alone. View quote
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Longing is momentum in disguise: It's active, not passive; touched with the creative, the tender, and the divine. View quote
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There's no correlation between expressing an idea assertively or charismatically, and having a good idea. View quote
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This is the next great diversity issue of our time. View quote
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For seven blissful years I had spent my time reading, writing and researching a book about introversion. But the publication date had arrived, the idyll was over and my metamorphosis was complete. I was now that impossibly oxymoronic creature: the Public Introvert. (Susan Cain)
Most introverts aren't aware of how they are constantly spending their time in ways that they would prefer not to be. They've been doing it all their lives, so it just becomes second nature. I'm trying to give people entitlement inside their own minds to be who they are. View quote
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Shyness is the fear of negative judgment, while introversion is simply the preference for less stimulation. Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree. View quote
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Embracing their quiet nature does not cause introverts to flee to a shack in the woods. It empowers them to engage with the world – but on their own terms. View quote
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Everyone shines, given the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight, for others, a lamplit desk. View quote
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