Temperament Quotes - Page 19

• The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Agitation, Doe, Littles

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• If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Corn, Toes, Sullen

  Michel de Montaigne (1908). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

  Mark Twain

  Fighting, Thinking, Government

  Mark Twain (2010). “What Is Man?”, p.85, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Names, Important, Liberty

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• It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The simple cannot fathom how any man would dare presume to prevail, while the wise are amazed that any reasonable man would want the world, assuming he could get it.

  Gore Vidal

  Wise, Men, Power

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• I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

  Sigmund Freud

  Adventure, Men, Conquistadors

  Letter toWilhelm Fliess, 1 Feb. 1900

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• I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Thinking, Directors, Actors

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• Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.

  Neil Peart

  Attention, Too Much, Agree

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• Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Men, Essentials, Aspect

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

  Ronald Gross

  Genius, Chess, Certain

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• Teaching high school, in addition to knowing one's subject matter thoroughly and being able to convey it to others, requires the grit of a long-distance runner, the stamina of a boxer going 15 rounds, the temperament of a juggler and the street smarts of a three-card monte dealer.

  Larry Cuban

  Smart, Teaching, School

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• It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Doctrine, Heat

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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• You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.

  Ramakrishna

  Differences, Different, Taste

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• Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Aptitude, Habit, Individual

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.60, M.E. Sharpe

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• Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Simple, Clouds, People

  "Memento Mori". Book by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. 2000.

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• That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

  Henry Adams

  Vices, Excess, Whiskey

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.292, Booklassic

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• You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If you recognise this, you can resist the urge to buy into a rally and sell into a decline. It’s also helpful to remember the power of compounding. You don’t need to stretch for returns to grow your capital over the course of your life.

  Irving Kahn

  Discipline, Needs, Return

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• It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Hands, People, Giving

  Jonathan Rosen (2001). “The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds”, p.85, A&C Black

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• The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own organizations, read women as easily and accurately as women read each other. They are alert to detect and interpret those smallest trifles in tone, expression, and bearing, which betray the real mood far more unmistakably than more obvious signs.

  Edward Bellamy

  Real, Men, Expression

  "Dr. Heidenhoff's Process". Book by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 4, 1880.

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• statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do by virtue of his intellect or temperament, nor prevented anything that man was impelled to do by the same dictates.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Law, Regulation

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.341, Univ of California Press

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• the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Children, Parent, Fairy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “The pearl of Orr's Island”, Houghton Mifflin Co.

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

  Bette Davis

  Artist, Differences, Actors

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.

  Laurence Sterne

  Generosity, May, Casual

  Laurence Sterne (1905). “A Sentimental Journey”

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• To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command, than the coarse, jeering insolence of a porter, cabman, or hack-driver.

  Herman Melville

  Self, Feelings, Jeering

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2530, Delphi Classics

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• ...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Power, Void, Dangerous

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