He is introverted.

So magic is a very introverted field.

I've always loved the freedom that comes from being introverted.

How do you tell the introverted statistician from the extroverted statistician?

Books have saved the introverted, timid child that I was that I once was.

When I was a very young child, I was extremely introverted and very much to myself.

And he says that he never would have become such an expert in the first place had he not been too introverted to leave the house when he was growing up.

I was an introverted child, to the point of communicating with colored crayons and apologizing to objects when I bumped into them, so my mother thought it might do me good to write down my day to day experiences and emotions.

Underneath this ceremonial role, he was really modest and really introverted so much so that when he delivered these sermons, he had trouble making eye contact with the very same congregation that he had been speaking to for 62 years.

I could have told you 50 others just like it all the times that I got the message that somehow my quiet and introverted style of being was not necessarily the right way to go, that I should be trying to pass as more of an extrovert.

And interesting research by Adam Grant at the Wharton School has found that introverted leaders often deliver better outcomes than extroverts do, because when they are managing proactive employees, they're much more likely to let those employees run with their ideas, whereas an extrovert can, quite unwittingly, get so excited about things that they're putting their own stamp on things, and other people's ideas might not as easily then bubble up to the surface.