Firsts Quote by Susan Sontag

Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.

— Seamus Heaney

I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number…

— Wole Soyinka

“The whole personality is determined by the temperament and character together. Temperament influences the development of the character to a certain point, but it…

— Zoe McKey

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

— Montserrat Caballe

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

— Ted Kotcheff

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

— Honore de Balzac

The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of…

— Erich Fromm

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

— Daniel Goleman

I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can be transformed…

— Hannah Hurnard

There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness…

— Lucille Ball

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

— Bette Davis