Quotes About Temperament

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

The nice thing about getting old is that you can be as grouchy as you want, everyone expects it!

Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

The conclusions to which temperament lead an individual, whether or not they are conclusions refractory to those of world society, are simply not subject to analysis.

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.

Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.

I'm a very normal person with a very even keel.

I'm normally not really an angry person. Maybe some other people have a different opinion.

Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.

He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.

I divide officers into four classes: the clever, the lazy, the stupid, and the industrious. The man who is clever and lazy is fit for the very highest commands, he has the temperament and the requisite nerves to deal with all situations. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the high staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy, but whoever is stupid and industrious must be removed immediately.

He had his mother's looks, his father's temper, and nobody's brains.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

To come right down to it, if I take my kind of things in which I believe, then add to that the kind of temperament that I have to whatever I believe in-- these are ingredients which make it just about impossible for me to die of old age. -- The autobiography of Malcom X