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• I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

  Heather O'Neill

  Artistic, Tragic, Artistic Temperament

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• His temperament is always there to be questioned because he plays on the edge. That is just the way he plays. It is a cliche but if you took that edge away from Wayne he wouldn't be the same player and I would rather have the Wayne Rooney we have now.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Player, Way, Cliche

  "Rio Backs Roo". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. September 15, 2005.

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• I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.

  James Ellroy

  Criminals, Littles, Too Much

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• No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

  Christy Mathewson

  Men, Yellow, Nerves

  Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.31, Penguin

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• As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Kids, Blow

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• It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

  Ivor Novello

  Girl, Feelings, Acting

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• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  Zane Grey

  Appreciation, Thinking, Overdoing It

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• I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can be transformed into their exact opposites and can therefore produce in us the loveliest of all qualities.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Opposites, Quality, Weakness

  Hannah Hurnard (2012). “Mountains of Spices”, p.258, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

  Timothy Keller

  Common Vision, People, Different

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.73, Penguin

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• My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

  Eva Gabor

  Late, Co Worker, Workers

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• By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

  Anne Desclos

  Makeup, Desire, Kinky

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• Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, early arrival, and location-should seem less a litany of problems than an agenda for action. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fabled editor Harold Ross, James Thurber said" 'He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.' That's the appropriate posture for a knowledge executive.

  Harlan Cleveland

  Mean, Opening Up, Editors

  Harlan Cleveland (1985). “The knowledge executive: leadership in an information society”, E P Dutton

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• Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

  Georges Rouault

  Mean, Expression, Sincere

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• Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

  David Bronstein

  Fashion, Character, Games

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Love, Art, Knowing

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• When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.

  Janet Morris

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

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• American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

  John Philip Sousa

  Teacher, Light, Judging

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• Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

  Joyce Brothers

  Money, Attitude, Cheerful

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• Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities and temperaments that nurturing parents may be able to foster or modify, but can rarely reverse.

  Jane Brody

  Children, Believe, Adoption

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• I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life. Indeed if I were required to make a sharp division in the very nature of people, I would be tempted to make it there: readers and nonreaders of books... It is astonishing how the presence or absence of this habit so consistently characterizes an individual in other respects; it is as though it were a kind of barometer of temperament, of personality, even of character. Aside from that, for me it constituted something like sanity insurance.

  William Brinkley

  Book, Character, Mean

  William Brinkley (2013). “The Last Ship: A Novel”, p.65, Penguin

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• A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Real, Unique

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

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• A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Appreciate

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• The repeat run of Fawlty Towers (BBC2) drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of the Spectator is incapable of seeing the joke, which is that Basil Fawlty has the wrong temperament to be a hotel proprietor, just as some other people have the wrong temperament to be television critics.

  Clive James

  Running, People, Television

  Clive James (2017). “Glued To The Box”, p.127, Pan Macmillan

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• Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.

  Janet Malcolm

  Art, Freedom Of Speech, Earning

  Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist And The Murderer”, p.14, Granta Books

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• I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Baby, Creativity, Thinking

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