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306 Temperament quotes by 245 unique authors

You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend. — Ramakrishna
Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate… — Thorstein Veblen
Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who… — Susan Cain
I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do… — Jack White
The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist… — Eric Maisel
Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at… — Jonathan Nolan
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. — Warren Buffett
That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never… — Henry Adams
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If… — Irving Kahn
It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking… — Jonathan Rosen
One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the… — Hermann Hesse
The horse is your mirror. He never flatters you. He reflects your temperament. He also reflects your ups and downs. Don’t ever be angry with… — Rudolf G. Binding
The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the… — Alfred North Whitehead
I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night. — Tom Lehrer
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. — Paul Getty
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. — Cyril Connolly
Few artists can afford artistic temperament. — Mason Cooley
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,… — Denis Diderot
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him. — Maureen Dowd
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. — Henry Van Dyke
Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to… — Roger Ebert
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. — E. M. Forster
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring… — Tom Hodgkinson

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