Best Temperament Sayings

306 Temperament quotes by 245 unique authors

The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available… — Unknown Author
Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would… — Dale Carnegie
Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme .… — John Money
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of… — Walter Pater
If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a… — Jean Shrimpton
An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you… — Carl Lewis
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd… — Warren Buffett
Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the… — Warren Buffett
A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own… — Marcel Proust
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day,… — Elwyn Brooks White
I wasn't really a performer by temperament, — Tom Lehrer
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. — Christopher Lasch
I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening. — Kay Redfield Jamison
When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius… — William James
Essentially, I mean the almost self-evident fact that individuals, ethnic groups, and races differ among themselves in intelligence and in many other traits, and that… — Murray Rothbard
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic. — Michael Haneke
But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for… — Mark Steyn
In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of… — Madeleine Albright
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. — Julian Assange
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. — Siri Hustvedt
A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament. — Marcel Boulestin
You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made… — Thomas Keneally
Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they… — Carl von Clausewitz
I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing. — Heather O'Neill
All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament. — Joseph Henry

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