Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament. — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. — Harlan Cleveland Copy Share Image
I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd. — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra… — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I never had any doubts about my ability. The problem was getting into so many scrapes because of my erratic temperament. — Alex Higgins Copy Share Image
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging… — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
“Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Family is a difficult matter. I must admit I do not know that the state can intervene successfully in a family. It's… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen… — Dominic Chianese Copy Share Image
When you're writing plays, it's possible to believe you don't have any real world skill. When you're adapting, it is really all… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice.… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Today temperament continues to be a major focus of researchers in the fields of psychology, anthropology, physiology, and neurobiology. While they agree… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There are many different paths to superior outcomes in business. You will have to find your own path, one that suits your… — Frank Slootman Copy Share Image
There are many similarities between India and America. If you look at the last few centuries, two things come to light. America… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man — Luke Johnson Copy Share Image
A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench. — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
The most important time to hold your temper is when the other person has lost it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments. — Artur Rodzinski Copy Share Image