Temperament Quotes

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.

Music inflames temperament.

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

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

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

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.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

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.

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

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

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

To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

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

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.