Susan Cain Quotes about Personality

We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.

We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.

Susan Cain

Running, Personality, Leader

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.55, Broadway Books

Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

Susan Cain

Personality, Style, Extroverts

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.4, Broadway Books

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.

Susan Cain

Fall, Race, Personality

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.2, Broadway Books

America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover.

Susan Cain

Character, America, Personality

All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

Susan Cain

Opposites, Long, Personality

Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.

Susan Cain

Personality, Brain, Important