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• I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Reputation, Bad Reputation

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• If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.

  Laurence Olivier

  Thinking, Mad, Gone

  "Laurence Olivier". Book by Foster Hirsch, 1979.

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• It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.453, Princeton University Press

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• Music inflames temperament.

  Jim Morrison

  Music

  Song: The Ghost Song

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• Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

  Emile Durkheim

  Suicide, Suicidal, Giving

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

  Denis Diderot

  Birthday, Goodbye, Farewell

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

  Iris Murdoch

  Literature, Matter, Goodness

  Iris Murdoch (1978). “The Nice and the Good”, p.103, Penguin

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• Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

  Andre Maurois

  Hands, Style, Definitions

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• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

  Walter Pater

  Beauty, Beautiful, Important

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

  Ivor Novello

  Girl, British

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• Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Heart, Character, Personality

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day, if I ever get a chance, I shall write a book, or warning, on the character and temperament of the Dachshund and why he can't be trained and shouldn't be. I would rather train a striped zebra to balance an Indian club than induce a Dachshund to heed my slightest command. When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes. He even disobeys me when I instruct him in something he wants to do.

  E. B. White

  Dog, Zebras, Book

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• To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Time, Mean, Differences

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• Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

  Saint Augustine

  Wise, Love Is, Justice

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• Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

  Isadora Duncan

  Determination, Energy, Genius

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• I know how to win. You can't win unless you have a great temperament.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Can't Win, Know How

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

  Tryon Edwards

  Appreciation, Art, Book

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.91, Ravenio Books

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• Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

  Aristotle

  Depression, Art, Philosophy

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.3493, Catholic Way Publishing

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• If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, People, Curiosity

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• A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success

  Charlie Munger

  Crazy, Adversity, Loss

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• The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

  Myrtle Reed

  Dust, Imagination, Soul

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• Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

  Tryon Edwards

  Strong, Mean, Imagination

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.409, Ravenio Books

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• Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

  Martin Luther

  School, Carpe Diem, Skills

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• All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.

  Joseph Henry

  Chance, Opinion, Results

  "John Inglesant". Book by Joseph Henry, 1881.

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• Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Mind, Culture, Tests

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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