# Quote — Susan Cain, Quiet

> Most introverts aren’t aware of how they are constantly spending their time in ways that they would prefer not to be. They’ve been doing it all their lives, so it just becomes second nature. I’m trying to give people entitlement inside their own minds to be who they are.

- Author: [Susan Cain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain.md)
- Book: [Quiet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/quiet.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susan_Cain#Quiet) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/quiet/most-introverts-arent

## More from this book

> We need systems that reward the best ideas, not the best presenters.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/quiet/we-need-systems.md)

> I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing … I like to think before I speak (softly).

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/quiet/i-prefer-listening.md)

> Solitude matters, and for some people it is the air that they breathe.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-cain/quiet/solitude-matters-and.md)