Temperament Quotes · Page 8

A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his…

— Jane Addams

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will…

— Thorstein Veblen

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little…

— Laurence Olivier

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

— Martin Luther

No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned…

— Francois Hollande

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be…

— David Keirsey

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

— David Eagleman

That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society…

— Stella Chess

“You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply…

— Joseph Conrad

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was…

— Li Keqiang

I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may…

— Isadora Duncan

Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers…

— Cyrano de Bergerac

The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own…

— Edward Bellamy

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be…

— Jon Krakauer

I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along.…

— Victoria Moran

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting…

— Janet Morris

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is…

— Anonymous

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

We'll go here on [Donald] Trump's temperament. Trump's reckless approach could lead to war. That really resonated with Democratic swing voters.

— Chuck Todd

I live in Hollywood. Go three feet and you will run into someone more cut and better looking than me. For me,…

— Jonathan Lipnicki

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This,…

— Ivor Novello

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Gautam Gambhir

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly…

— Thomas Hardy

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

— Cyril Connolly

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

— Bette Davis

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach…

— Laurence Olivier

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country…

— Hillary Clinton

Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved…

— Daniel Goleman

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

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great…

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

— Juliana Hatfield

I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but…

— Jeremy Renner

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Hillary Clinton wants to be president, but she doesn't have the temperament or - as Bernie Sanders said very strongly - the…

— Donald Trump

If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's…

— Barack Obama

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

— Max Beerbohm

Andrew Lincoln has to be the nicest, ego-less lead actor that I've ever met in my life. His energy and temperament just…

— Chad Coleman