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Quotes About Temperament

he observed that it was strange how differently wine took different men – some grew glum and fault-finding, some quarrelsome or tearful; for his part he found it did not affect him at all, except perhaps to make him like people rather more, and to make the world seem a more cheerful place. 'Not that it could be much more cheerful than it is already,' he added
~ Patrick O'Brian
His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from hour to hour.
~ Horace
Just sayin' you got a hot nature, little girl. Quick to anger, quick to lust. Some people are just like that - hot-blooded.
~ Unknown
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
~ Hans Hofmann
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
~ Émile Zola
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
~ Oscar Wilde
The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....
~ Edmund Crispin
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
~ G. K. Chesterton
A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
~ Unknown
A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.
~ Payne Stewart
The control center of your life is your attitude.
~ Norman Cousins
Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.
~ Napoleon Hill
Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
~ Emmet Fox
Everything depends on your mental attitude.
~ Dharma Mittra
Whatever the attitude, so is the response.
~ Ed Parker
The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude
~ Joe McNally
Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.
~ John C. Maxwell
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.
~ Joyce Brothers
Attitude makes the woman, darling!
~ Eric Jacobson
They're not for petting, though. When you come close they flatten their ears and show big teeth. The grooms laugh to themselves as we jump back. These are special competitive horses, intricately bred, w/ high-strung artistic temperaments. I wish I'd brought carrots: animals can be bought, emotionally.
~ David Foster Wallace
Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
~ William Shakespeare
I think the sun where he were born drew all such humours from him.
~ William Shakespeare
Not for the first time he was conscious of emotional lights and shades in his wife that could not be categorized, could not be named as sensuous or emotional as such, perhaps derived from each and gave to each but in essence grew out of a deeper fund of temperament that he still could not altogether apprehend. The simple miner's daughter was not simple in character at all.
~ Winston Graham