"...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that Iâ€™m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward."

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Source : "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.

Susan Cain

#Lonely Quotes #Strong Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.”
“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.”
“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.”
“Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.”
“There is no diplomacy like silence.”
“What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and to replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, a new concept of science-and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all.”

Source : "Galileo to Plato". Journal of the History of Ideas, 1957.
“This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.”
“I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.”

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