Temperament Quotes - Page 15

• I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Dancing, Quality

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• I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the nomadic button and the ceaseless call for sympathy, and the greatest demand on time and patience. My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people... to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential temperament that is called, soul, humanity.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Mother, Children, People

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• The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

  Emile Zola

  Mean, Reality, Giving

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• Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Games, Play, Risk

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

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• That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vision, Purpose, Artistic

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.947, Wordsworth Editions

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• If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.

  Barack Obama

  Want, Next, Debate

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was, he was not; his studious temperament made that impossible; and thus he was conquered by a player and in the end little valued by the world, he died.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, World, Littles

  Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Eye, Challenges, Use

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• Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out the body organs. A person who is driven by fear will always be the weaker for it

  Francois Fenelon

  Strong, Fighting, Medicine

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• Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One amateur prefers the family group, another bathing scenes, another cows upon an alp, or kittens held upside down in the arms of a black-faced child. The tendency to choose one subject rather than another indicates the photographer's temperament. Nevertheless, his passion is for photography rather than for selection, a kitten will serve when no cows are available.

  E. M. Forster

  Photography, Children, Passion

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• I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Expectations, Dilettantes

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

  Jess Row

  People, Pessimistic, Quiet

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Barack Obama is uniquely qualified to speak about the knowledge, experience and temperament that the presidency requires. And I know he is raring to get out there and start campaigning and I really look forward to campaigning with him.

  Hillary Clinton

  Knowledge Experience, Looks, Speak

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The focus, to my mind, is to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States. I think by temperament he is unqualified to be president. I think his views - you have a guy who's running for president who rejects science, doesn't even believe climate change is real, let alone wants to do something about it, wants to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top two-tenths of one percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Real, Believe

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In fact, anybody else who hears this [speech of Donald Trump in Philadelphia] is probably gonna be dutifully impressed with Trump's comportment, his presentation, his knowledge of this, and his temperament here. It's all a great package and looks good.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Philadelphia, Looks, Speech

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.

  Zicheng Hong

  Heart, Men, Blessing

  Zicheng Hong, Tze-chiang Chao (1959). “A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty "Discourses on Vegetable Roots"”

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• The poetic temperament is the worst for golf. It dreams of brilliant drives, iron shots laid dead, and long putts holed, while in real golf success waits for him who takes care of the foozles and leaves the fine shots to take care of themselves.

  Charles Walter Simpson

  Dream, Real, Golf

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• The national security issues are very important for two reasons. First, because everybody knows that we want to be safe. But, secondly, people see these issues as probably the clearest window into somebody's temperament, their judgment, whether they're steady or volatile.

  Tim Kaine

  Issues, Two, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think temperament is my single greatest asset.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Assets

  "Donald Trump’s interview with Dr. Oz was just as amazingly strange as we thought it would be". www.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

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• My temperament is my strongest thing according for the people that know me best.

  Donald Trump

  People, Know Me, Strongest

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy; the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Life, Christian, Justice

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• There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able to find this perfection in all things. But there is a natural malignity that often discovers a vice in the midst of several virtues, in order to reveal and proclaim the discovery to all the world - a quality that is more the mark of a naturally evil temperament than a superior sense of discrimination. And it is truly an evil lot, to pass one's life always feeding off the imperfections of others.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Life, Discovery, Order

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• I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

  Gerald Stern

  Kindness, Remember, Shyness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was an only child. And it's very much my temperament. I remember playing with a piece of string in my room for hours. I had never thought about what it would be like to have siblings.

  Leigh Newman

  Children, Sibling, Only Child

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Over the years since then though, I couldn't even begin to try and count all the mistakes I've made but also, all the joys I've found while traveling on the road. So in living this kind of lifestyle day in and day out for that many years you learn. You learn a lot about yourself. You learn a lot about how people should be treated and how they should treat each other. For the most part, I've really learned patience, temperament and fairness all around.

  Chuck Ragan

  Mistake, Years, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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