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Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.

I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interacting. Extroverts have the opposite preference; they tend to gain energy by interacting and expend energy while reflecting.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

I am a little extrovert.

I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. That is where I'm happiest.

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.