Temperament Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.

  Carolyn Hax

  Children, Skills, People

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

  Aphex Twin

  World, Missions, Composer

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You're brainwashed in the West with equal temperament, so it's quite hard for people who like following rules to get outside of that and see what you can do. But for me it's easy because I don't work like that. I work intuitively.

  Aphex Twin

  People, Following Rules, West

  Source: pitchfork.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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• If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh."

  Aphex Twin

  Brain, Accepting, Chords

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Integrating, Masculine

  Source: scottlondon.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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• I'm going to keep talking about what I would do as president, the experience that I bring, the temperament and judgment that led President [Barack] Obama to ask me to be secretary of state after we ran a really hard primary against each other. It's funny to me, because when I have a position, whether it's first lady, or senator, or secretary of state, and I'm doing the work, I'm really quite popular.

  Hillary Clinton

  Talking, President, Firsts

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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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• Most of my friends wonder why I get these roles that are so masculine and tough. I think it's my Polish temperament that comes up.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Thinking, Roles, Tough

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• Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Philosophy, Two, Skulls

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger.

  Jo Baer

  Courage, Brave, Mind

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• The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Fire, Framed, Contemplation

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Real, Sunset

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.233, Oxford University Press

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