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Quotes About Temperament

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
~ Zane Grey
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I've supported a lot of folks with a lot of points of view. But I have concerns about Mr. Trump's temperament. Some of the things he's said about women, Muslims and religious freedom, I just can't support.
~ Charlie Baker
I feel like rap fit me better. I could hoop. I could have went and did that, but this is my lifestyle, my temperament, my mentality.
~ Dave East
I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam.
~ Wole Soyinka
There are a number of issues that I disagree vehemently with Mr. Trump on. I question whether he's got the temperament to serve as president.
~ Charlie Baker
I only do work that suits my temperament.
~ Tabu
I wasn't really a performer by temperament.
~ Tom Lehrer
I can look at a photo and tell you about your child's temperament and personality. All that scans in seconds.
~ Jo Frost
The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
~ Aaron Diehl
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
~ Tom Stoppard
Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.
~ Julianne Moore
That has always been my character - on the pitch I have a strong temperament, but off the pitch I'm more serene, reflective. I manage to separate out those two things.
~ Giorgio Chiellini
I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.
~ Ted Danson
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
~ Jules Verne
The physiological signs, of getting on in age, are enervatingly apparent. What creeps up on you insidiously are the changes of temperament.
~ Shweta Bachchan Nanda
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
~ Iris Murdoch
Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.
~ John Montgomery Ward
Well, a daughter is someone you've grown up with, right? So you know her temperament, you know what makes her angry and how to deal with that person. You're meeting your daughter-in-law when she is an adult already and you don't quite know what her temperament is like, so it takes time to gel.
~ Sharmila Tagore
I don't have the temperament of being a director.
~ Himesh Reshammiya
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
~ Philip Levine
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
~ May Sarton