Opposites Attract, And I Think Temperament Is

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.

You Once Said To Would Like To Sit Beside Me While I Write. Listen In That Case I Could Not Write At All. For Writing Means Revealing One Self To Excess; That Utmost Of Self-revelation And Surrender, In Which A Human Being, When Involved With Others, Would Feel He Was Losing Himself, And From Which, Therefore, He Will Always Shrink As Long As He Is In His Right Mind...that Is Why One Can Never Be Alone Enough When One Writes, Why There Can Never Be Enough Silence Around One When One Writes, Why Even Night Is Not Night Enough.

I Look Back On My Years As A Wall Street Lawyer As Time Spent In A Foreign Country.

Most People Who Have Grown Up Introverted In This Very Extroverted Culture Of Ours Have Had Painful Experiences Of Feeling Like They Are Out Of Step With What's Expected Of Them.

We're Told That To Be Great Is To Be Bold, To Be Happy Is To Be Sociable. We See Ourselves As A Nation Of Extroverts - Which Means That We've Lost Sight Of Who We Really Are. Depending On Which Study You Consult, One Third To One Half Of Americans Are Introverts - In Other Words, One Out Of Every Two Or Three People You Know.