{"quotes":[{"text":"When you fail to tap into your wellsprings of inner strength due totoxic habits, environments or people, you wind up feeling trapped, stranded and unhappy. You end up in soulless jobs, destructive relationships and empty friendships. Most of all, youfind yourself unsatisfied with who you are, and you often become your own worst enemy,perpetuating the cycles of pain, anger and fear within you – like I did.","author":"Aletheia Luna","tags":["anger","fear","introversion","introvertedness","introverts","quiet-strength","unhappiness"],"id":578,"author_id":"Aletheia+Luna"},{"text":"Extroverts are more likely to take a quick-and-dirty approach to problem-solving, trading accuracy for speed, making increasing numbers of mistakes as they go, and abandoning ship altogether when the problem seems too difficult or frustrating. Introverts think before they act, digest information thoroughly, stay on task longer, give up less easily, and work more accurately. Introverts and extroverts also direct their attention differently: if you leave them to their own devices, the introverts tend to sit around wondering about things, imagining things, recalling events from their past, and making plans for the future. The extroverts are more likely to focus on what's happening around them. It's as if extroverts are seeing 'what is' while their introverted peers are asking 'what if.","author":"Susan Cain","tags":["accuracy","extroverts","focus","introverts","problem-solving","processing-information","tendencies","thinking","thought-patterns"],"id":1611,"author_id":"Susan+Cain"},{"text":"Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.","author":"Joyce Rachelle","tags":["agreeing","agreement","arguing","argument","arguments","conflict","conflict-management","conflicts","confrontations","fighting","introverts","quiet-people","saying-no","saying-yes","silence","silent-treatment"],"id":40460,"author_id":"Joyce+Rachelle"},{"text":"In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["accusation","assumption","bias","blame","extroversion","extroverts","fear","guilt","innocence","introversion","introverts","judgment","judgmental","judgmentality","people","skepticism","social-norms","society","unconscious-mind"],"id":41409,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.","author":"Adam S. McHugh","tags":["friendship","introverts"],"id":42065,"author_id":"Adam+S.+McHugh"},{"text":"Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["funny","funny-but-true","hell","humor","introversion","introvert","introverts","parties","party","partying","people","saints","social","socializing"],"id":56836,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Introverted seekers need introverted evangelists. It's not that extroverts can't communicate the gospel, either verbally or nonverbally, in ways that introverts find appealing, it's that introverted seekers need to know and see that it's possible to lead the Christian life as themselves. It's imperative for them to understand that becoming a Christian is not tantamount with becoming an extrovert.","author":"Adam S. McHugh","tags":["christianity","christians","evangelism","extroverts","introverts","spirituality"],"id":59854,"author_id":"Adam+S.+McHugh"},{"text":"He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.","author":"Pierce Brown","tags":["introvert","introverts","readers","reading","red-rising"],"id":102820,"author_id":"Pierce+Brown"},{"text":"There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.","author":"Lauren Morrill","tags":["humor","introverts","reading"],"id":104200,"author_id":"Lauren+Morrill"},{"text":"The limited circle is pure.","author":"Franz Kafka","tags":["friends","introverts","society"],"id":116063,"author_id":"Franz+Kafka"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}