When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.
Criss JamiTags: imagination life art writing originality social perspective humanity solitude authenticity purity isolation brain artist alienation craft compromise creative introversion advantage loner genuine awkward fierce alienation-versus-humanity humanity-versus-alienation socially-awkward
In the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but never in reality.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: introversion
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
Søren KierkegaardTags: solitude modernity introversion
How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labour, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!
Boris PasternakTags: peace quiet introversion zhivago
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and at the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.
Henry David ThoreauTags: social philosophy solitude introversion walden antisocial thoreau introvert
While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields. Outstanding introverted leaders, such as Charles Darwin, Maurie Curie, Patrick White and Arthur Boyd, who have created either new fields of thought or rearranged existing knowledge, have spent long periods of their lives in solitude. Hence leadership does not only apply in social situations, but also occurs in more solitary situations such as developing new techniques in the arts, creating new philosophies, writing profound books and making scientific breakthroughs.
Janet FarrallTags: introversion
Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.
Al GoreTags: politics introversion
Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic and businesslike character of American life put a premium upon rough and ready habits of mind, quick decision, and the prompt seizure of opportunities - and that all this activity was not propitious for deliberation, elaboration, or precision in thought.
Richard HofstadterTags: introversion extroversion
A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter.
Allen M. SteeleTags: introversion sensitiveness small-talk
Introverts don't like small talk conversation, but they typically don't mind writing. The more people can "see" you on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or a blog, the more they will feel like they know you, even though you don't have one-on-one interaction with them.
Thom S. RainerTags: social-media introversion extrovesion
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