Peter Hammill Quotes

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

When it comes to our relationship with loneliness, specifically, it's important to understand how our relative introversion or extroversion informs our preference for social interaction.

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

I think there's times where I'm introverted, and there's times where I'm extroverted.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.

I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert.

I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.

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

I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy...' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate.

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.

I'm a little unusual: I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert.

I think I was very shy and introverted when I was younger, and yet, when I got in front of the camera or went out on the town, I was able to go out half-naked and do anything.

I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own.

As I was writing, I realised I wasn't sufficiently extrovert to gather enough interesting souls with tall tales around me. I was no Louis Theroux. But neither was I interested in exploring my inner life in public, in the manner of a Jonathan Raban.

I am essentially very shy. Which, I guess, is why I'm very good at not being shy.

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

As a psychologist, I can tell you that there are people who look very good in a group, but they're very different in a one-on-one situation.

For an interesting nonfiction read, I really enjoyed 'Quiet' by Susan Cain. I read it with my husband, who is a true introvert, whereas I am an introvert masquerading as an extrovert.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

I had this idea that being an introvert was a negative thing, that it had a negative connotation, and I really wanted, as a young person, to strive to be the life of the party and to be really outgoing and to have a million friends. And then I realized that an introvert isn't a negative.

I would like to believe that I still am a shy person; I am very introverted. I have a problem communicating.

Being introverted, it doesn't mean necessarily being shy or being afraid of public speaking; it just means that it's hard for me to interact with people for too long.