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Quotes About Temperament

I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
~ Action Bronson
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
~ Samuel Richardson
I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.
~ Lee Trevino
I'm sure people see me as quiet and someone who keeps things to himself a little bit. I might be quiet, but there's a lot of fire inside me, and hopefully people see that sometimes.
~ Luke Donald
I tend to be on the quiet side. I think I would have been bigger if I had a big mouth.
~ Neil Sedaka
I believe that I am a different person off the pitch than I am on it. On the pitch, I am a bit louder, and off the pitch, I am quieter.
~ Emre Can
Any dog can be aggressive; it's basically the way they're raised.
~ Patrick Mahomes
Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
~ Taylor Caldwell
If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
~ Paul Gallico
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability, whereas exactly the contrary has taken place.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I can see that. She is lovely, very different from you. Oh, my clumsy tongue. Vollys's bells clanged. You are lovely too, but in a quieter way. In temperament I see that you are different as well. She could lead a charge, but you could last a siege. This is fascinating, little Adelina. The more I look at her, the more clearly I see you. You may be a worthier opponent than even my Willard was.
~ Gail Carson Levine
To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.
~ Ameen Rihani
Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start to get that edgy thing, I get kind of mean.
~ Tom Smothers
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
~ John Ruskin
In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.
~ Sandra Bullock
Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.
~ Thomas Szasz
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
The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can't make snap decisions. You can't have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.
~ Michelle Obama
Donald Trump believes in conspiracies. He has thin skin and is impulsive.
~ Ted Lieu
I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
que le même homme peut être très énergétique en même temps que doux
~ Marc Aurèle
Just think, Scarlett, a half-million dollars, if you'd only restrained your fiery nature and not rushed into wedlock again!
~ Margaret Mitchell