Jessica Parker

“For the early U.S. astronauts, having a low heart rate, which is associated with low reactivity, was a status symbol. Lieutenant Colonel John Glenn, who became the first American to orbit the Earth and would later run for president, was admired by his comrades for his supercool pulse rate during liftoff (only 110 beats per minute).”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“There can be no doubt that the most enchanting way to spend a wet day is indoors with a cup of tea in one hand and a book in the other.”
― C.J. Archer, The Untitled Books

“It’s because of relationship honoring, for example, that social anxiety disorder in Japan, known as taijin kyofusho, takes the form not of excessive worry about embarrassing oneself, as it does in the United States, but of embarrassing others.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“It’s as if extroverts are seeing “what is” while their introverted peers are asking “what if.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking