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Quotes About Temperament

I am far from the first to conclude that Donald Trump lacks the temperament to be president.
~ Mitt Romney
The difference between an experienced director and a new director is not as big as the difference between individual directors, the temperament they have, and the things they're interested in.
~ Stellan Skarsgard
I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.
~ Hisham Matar
I think it takes a unique temperament for a lawyer who wants to go to a start-up, because generally, by nature, it's a high-risk environment.
~ Belinda Johnson
Kobe has a different temperament than me. We're both competitive, but he was much more outspoken. I would let anything roll off me. Nothing bothered me. I never complained.
~ Penny Hardaway
Technique is the main thing when it comes to success at the top level. The sound temperament comes into work only when you have a sound technique.
~ Shikhar Dhawan
I get the sense people sort of imagine that in my personal religious life I must be an intense rigorist wearing a hair shirt under my clothes while scourging myself. And, really, I'm not a rigorist by temperament.
~ Ross Douthat
I love sports, but I never had the temperament for it.
~ Masaba Gupta
My friends tell me that I have the wrong temperament for politics.
~ Poonam Dhillon
American Pharoah loved human contact. He was a very sweet horse and is still very sweet. He loves people, will put his head in your lap. I'm probably closer to that horse because of his temperament.
~ Bob Baffert
Music was more fitted to my temperament. If you were feeling sad and down in the boxing gym, you'd get hit more than you would on a normal day. If you're feeling sad and down and you're sitting in front of a computer with beats, you might make the best song you've ever made.
~ Bugzy Malone
Of all the art forms that my family dabbles in, writing suits my temperament the most.
~ Shweta Bachchan Nanda
My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.
~ Eva Gabor
I'd say I'm moody, I'd say I'm temperamental. But within my certain group of friends and family, I'm very open and outgoing and joke around a lot.
~ Denny Hamlin
An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.
~ Fredric March
The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.
~ Montserrat Caballe
I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.
~ Omari Hardwick
Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children do not, and cannot, believe exactly as they were taught. They are not exactly like their parents. They differ in temperament, in experience, in capacity, in surroundings. And so there is a continual, though almost imperceptible change. There is development, conscious and unconscious growth, and by comparing long periods of time we find that the old has been almost abandoned, almost lost in the new.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
A genius temperament should be handled with care.
~ Robert Lowell
I always thought Obama was "presidential." He treated the office of the presidency with respect. I rarely saw him in the Oval Office with a coat and tie, and he always conducted himself with dignity. He was a man of personal integrity, and in his personal behavior - at least to the extent I could observe it - he was an excellent role model...I thought Obama was first-rate in both intellect and temperament." Page 300
~ Robert M. Gates
Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
There's never been a time in my life that I wasn't impatient, ecstatic one moment, morbid as hell another, and ready to be reckless almost any time.
~ Robert McAlmon
She's too much like him in temperament. Married couples should complement each other, and not merely double their losses. There's much to be said for the square peg in the round hole, as the Cubist told the Vorticist.
~ Robertson Davies
For a certain kind of temperament, defeat is never defeat by reality, but always defeat by other people, often acting together as members of a class, tribe, conspiracy or clan.
~ Roger Scruton