Quotes About Temperament

I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.

Is Preacher pissed?" "Preacher hardly ever gets pissed," Jack said. "But just for future reference, you don't want to be around when he is.

Los rasgos del carácter son "los anhelos apasionados relativamente permanentes".

Shy people are angry people

She has never made up her mind between public acclaim—which she sees, rightly or wrongly, as destructive of the true artistic impulse—and obscurity, for which she is not temperamentally fitted.

O casamento é a pior ou a melhor coisa do mundo; pura questão de temperamento.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

But I'm not patient! cried Meg passionately. I've never been patient!

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

The mold we give to our lives is so that there will be no cataclysms. The order we seek we are willing to surrender to the flow of life at any time, but it is there as a brake on a car, and our health is a brake. We put brakes on, against our temperament. he said, "Even a room, arranged in a certain manner, prevents certain things from taking place in it.

Everybody who keeps cool is superior. But who likes the man who keeps cool? Not I. If you go on like this I will fight!

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman

The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know.

The most virtuous hearts have a touch of hell's own fire in them.

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

Their decision to keep above the fray made sense. Franklin and Washington were thin-skinned and recoiled from ad hominem attacks. Neither was particularly adept at defending a proposal in a contentious up-or-down vote, especially a proposition they helped to craft. Franklin might begin fiddling with the text and Washington might lose his temper.

For example, Kagan found that babies who later showed this trait also had cooler foreheads on the right side of their head, which indicates greater activity on the right side of the brain. (The blood is drawn away from the surface toward the activity.)

It will be implied that this goal is "normal", but it may really be the goal of being like them or like the majority of people, ignoring differences in temperament. A good cognitive-behavioral therapist, however, will be attuned to individual differences...

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

A majority of people have major nagging issues with a person who is often not temperament wise like all of them, and minor dragging concern with ones who are just same to same behaviour wise almost all the time.

He remarked afterwards to me, apropos to Hooper, that it was a curious thing that a number of men, knowing that there was nothing they could do, could quietly watch a man fighting for his life, and he did not think that any but the British temperament could do so.

Tenía un carácter apacible y su trato era cortés y afectuoso.

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.