Quotes About Temperament

Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

An intense temperament has convinced me to teach not only from books but from what I have learned from experience. So I try to impress upon young doctors and graduate students that tumultuousness, if coupled to discipline and a cool mind, is not such a bad sort of thing.

But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.

On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents.

This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.

With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline of companies that measure public opinion. I am saddened to watch the lack of temperament and political stability of those who 'represent' a trend or ideology.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

Some are born jerks" she said, "some have jerkhood thrust upon them, and some mature into rich and vibrant jerks. You are all three.

After a couple of weeks in Polmont, I started to become more assertive and began arguing with older, bigger boys. I loved it. This is where my ugly side would make some scary and unpredictable appearances. Even to this day, I can go from a happy-go-lucky cunt to the devil on acid.

I can get mad and snap at people. If a horse loses, I'm moody.

Hare and Tomasello think that the social behavior of chimps is constrained by their temperament, and the human temperament is necessary for more complex forms of social cognition. In order to develop the level of cooperation that is necessary for humans to live in large social groups, humans had to become less aggressive and less competitive.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

I'm an introvert and phlegmatic, so I don't show my joy.

I am physical, not aggressive. Well, aggressive with the ball, but I don't kick people.

That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions.

He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird

Attitude shapes reality.

She had an inner fire that begged provoking, just for the pleasure of watching it burn. Right.

Nancy was more impulsive than industrious, more generous than wise, more plucky than prudent; she had none too much perseverance and no patience at all.

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.

In the study of Christian spirituality, real contemplation is actually an experience with a beginning and an end that Christians pass through. Contemplation is not generally considered a life-state that one exists in, so I'm adapting the word somewhat when I use it as a label for a spiritual temperament.

high-reactive infants matured into more inhibited, introverted teenagers.

I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense.