Temperaments Quotes
39 quotes by 34 authors
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Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA.…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is…
— Steven Pinker
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By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities,…
— David A. Bednar
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Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is…
— Steven Pinker
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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die.…
— Oscar Wilde
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Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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With our rarely changing temperaments strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways. But he said I did not need to worry about that part…
— Stephenie Meyer
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No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more…
— Dion Fortune
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Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives…
— Susan Cain
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There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.
— James Dobson
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Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.
— Ben Okri
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I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods.
— Deb Caletti
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This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations.…
— John Ortberg
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Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now…
— Theodore Zeldin
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Life's all about your changing temperaments and how well you control them and for whom.
— Unknown Author
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