Temperament Quotes

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp.

I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh."

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak. We need a strong temperament.

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.

One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Senator [Ted] Cruz is not qualified to be president because he doesn't have the right temperament and acted like a maniac when he arrived in the Senate.

Most of my friends wonder why I get these roles that are so masculine and tough. I think it's my Polish temperament that comes up.

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

A person's fate is their own temper.

Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience.

A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.