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Quotes About Temperament

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
~ Iris Murdoch
It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.
~ Ivor Novello
Make sure that you are doing a job suited to your particular temperament. If you are a choleric person, find a leadership job that is suitable for choleric people. If you are phlegmatic, ask to be excused from jobs that require a driving, leadership personality!
~ Dag Heward-Mills
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
~ Damian Lewis
How come you're always so mean? --Howie Katelnikof
~ Dana Stabenow
But a child is a sensitive instrument. You can hide the factual truth from a child, but you can't blanket influence. Your agitation will out, and over time it will mod your child's temperament as surely as water wear at rock.
~ Daniel B. Smith
other words, on top of our basic brain architecture and our inborn temperament, parents have much they can do to provide the kinds of experiences that will help develop a resilient, well-integrated brain.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
parenting matters, even to the extent of influencing our inborn and genetically shaped temperament.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
each of us have tendencies derived from both our temperament and our accumulated experiences, we may also have a set of proclivities in how we live in the world as well. This
~ Daniel J. Siegel
At any debate, you want viewers to have learned something they didn't know before - whether it's about the candidates' temperament, policies, or preparedness for office.
~ Hallie Jackson
There's nothing that can shock me anymore, but at this point, Trump's made it very clear how his temperament is, how his personality is, what his level of intellectual depth is when it comes to policy, and he's made it abundantly clear that he's utterly unqualified to be president - no matter what your political views are.
~ John Legend
The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.
~ Lou Ferrigno
but if you were a nasty piece of work growing up, you'll be an asshole as an adult and you'll die pissed off.
~ Louise Penny
Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness . . . but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.
~ Lucille Ball
I tend to be a bitch when it's hot.
~ Unknown
When two-year-olds are thwarted (like every three minutes), they have intense anger and temper tantrums. At this stage the child needs to take possession of things in order to test them by purposeful repetition.
~ John Bradshaw
He had just the same narrow head, and stubborn mouth, and honest, quick-tempered eyes. It is the type that makes dashing regimental officers, and earns V.C.'s, and gets done in wholesale. I was never that kind. I belonged to the school of the cunning cowards.
~ John Buchan
A lot goes into an attitude—but a lot more comes out of it!
~ John C. Maxwell
You have to look at the person's gifts, temperament, passions, successes, joys, and opportunities. And once you find that seed, you need to fertilize it with encouragement and water it with opportunity. If you do, the person will blossom before your eyes.
~ John C. Maxwell
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
~ Lillian Hellman
Don't let my looks deceive you. I have the mouth of a sailor, the temper of an Italian housewife, and the tolerance of an Irishman.
~ Unknown
I'm working with two speeds today; slow and fu.. you. Which one you want?
~ Unknown
By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.
~ Anne Desclos
I'm mostly a quiet person by nature and don't like letting my emotions come out on the field.
~ Smriti Mandhana