Temperament Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• I actually prefer it if I don't know what I'm supposed to do. If you've got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you're going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don't know where the notes are, because then you do it intuitively. You're working out a new language, basically. New rules.

  Aphex Twin

  Play, Piano, Work Out

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Communication, Law, Evil

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by B. Spinoza, ch. 2, Of Natural Right, 1883.

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• 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 malleable; temperament is not destiny.

  Daniel Goleman

  Destiny, Emotional, Brain

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.27, Bantam

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• The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Men, Expression

  1905 Heretics, ch.17.

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• One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.

  Barack Obama

  News, Littles, Fruit

  Interview with Jon Sopel on BBC, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.

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• No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Two, Views, Giving

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• All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Civilization, Body, Limits

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1983). “The Reagan phenomenon, and other speeches on foreign policy”, Aei Pr

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• People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Law, People

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12495, Delphi Classics

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• Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Unqualified, Good Job

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others less so. Respect for individual differences is in my view the cornerstone of good parent-child relationships.

  Sandra Scarr

  Children, Views, Individual Differences

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• That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.

  Stella Chess

  Children, Other Cultures, Helping

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• As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

  Jim Evans

  Jobs, Communication, Mean

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• I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

  John Roberts

  Thinking, Views, Law

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• Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in economic and political reality at the time. It also made sense since the founding principles of the United States are supposedly based on government by the consent of the governed, and the sense that all men are created equal.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Reality, Men, Political

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• As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy light and avoids any possibility of self-criticism. I am one of those unlucky skeptics who never overlook the dark side of even the happiest experience.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Dark, Light, Self

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• Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

  Edwin Markham

  Clever, Men, Poetic

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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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• I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Thinking, Gnosis

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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