“In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality...”

“A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is vi...”

“Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people t...”

“In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the quest...”

“We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with...”

“Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like th...”

“I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just we...”

“I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.”

“I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give yo...”

“I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.”

“I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically...”

“We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that...”