Best Temperament Words
306 Temperament quotes by 245 unique authors
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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…
— Dominic Chianese
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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…
— Robert Nozick
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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…
— Henry Bessemer
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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…
— Florenz Ziegfeld
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In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.
— Artur Rodzinski
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The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
— Montserrat Caballe
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If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
— Sol Hurok
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It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.
— Tilda Swinton
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British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
— Ivor Novello
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
— Ted Kotcheff
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Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
— Joyce Brothers
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Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined…
— Jane Brody
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I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it…
— Unknown Author
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.…
— Oscar Wilde
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a…
— Oscar Wilde
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The repeat run of Fawlty Towers drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of The Spectator…
— Clive James
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Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’;…
— Janet Malcolm
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I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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…
— Charlie Munger
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I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence , heightened sexual…
— Brian Eno
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Young people, don't get the idea that you have an artistic temperament which must be humored. Don't believe you cannot do good work unless you…
— Howard Pyle
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Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.
— John James Ingalls
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I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by…
— Rahul Dravid
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Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, meaningful coincidence.…
— Carl Jung
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