Annie Dillard sometimes lacks energy. She is fairly apathetic and passive, preferring sluggishness to movement and leniency to initiative.

Annie Dillard has a great deal of sang-froid. Her inner calm and stolidity predispose her to tasks which require self-control and perseverance. She does not readily display her emotions, even in the most hair-raising situations.

Annie Dillard is a good balance between her need to be receptive to the other world, and her tendency to enjoy solitude and introspection. She is able to express her feelings and moods without being overwhelmed by them to the point of mistaking them for outer reality.

Annie Dillard has a phlegmatic personality. Her responses to various outer stimuli are sometimes postponed or delayed. She is fairly slow to initiate an activity, if not laboriously so, but once she begins, she is steady and determined.

Annie Dillard has the ability to concentrate and focus her attention on a single object intensely and exclusively. She may become a specialist in her field.

Annie Dillard’s objectivity in perception and behavior could, in the best of cases, lead to generosity and altruism.

Annie Dillard’s individualism promotes independent and original behavior. She tends to lack team spirit. On the contrary, she needs to feel free and untrammeled by others to be really effective.

Annie Dillard is motivated by a thirst for power which gives her a certain authority. She has a feeling she is leadership material. However, she might be tempted to infringe on other people’s freedom and get involved in troublesome power struggles.

Annie Dillard has personality and presence. She is quite sure of herself and may tend to be rather self-satisfied, although this does not eliminate her need for other people’s approval and recognition.

Annie Dillard finds it easy to make decisions because she is usually in a positive frame of mind. However, her optimism may lead her to overestimate her own potential and make her liable to misjudgment.

Annie Dillard is chiefly interested in tangible facts and realistic details. A pragmatic personality, she never loses sight of the utilitarian or practical aspects of things.

Annie Dillard’s mind is quite nimble. She may adopt a rigid, methodical approach when necessary or switch to a more flexible, free attitude that expresses her spontaneity.

Annie Dillard thought processes rarely follow the laws of logical reasoning or linear thought; instead, they proceed from an overall vision, which is pieced together from more or less obscure and subconscious clues.

Annie Dillard’s mind is especially perceptive of details. To arrive at a global perception, a vision of the whole, she proceeds gradually, piece by piece, aspect after aspect, in a fairly linear fashion.

Annie Dillard was not obsessed with order, but she was aware of a necessity to arrange and classify things to some degree.

Annie Dillard behaves impulsively, and is inspired by her imagination. Her openness and spontaneity give her the scope to be skillful, ingenious, or shrewd, rising to whatever the immediate circumstances require.