Quotes About Temperament

He could not be a breaker, it was against his bent.

He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.

The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....

Stendhal had said a Frenchman was an Italian in a bad mood.

If body structure and temperament are related, as anyone who studies human nature can determine, the question then is: Can one change the character of an individual without some change in the body structure and in its functional motility?

When I am off the field, I am the calm, very quiet kind of easy-sailing ocean, and then when I am on a hot streak with a cricket ball, I can be the most disastrous waters you have ever been in.

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

I've always been very un-fun. I'm a habit person. I have a very weak version of an addictive personality.

Away from the pitch, I'm a very calm person. I maybe have the odd cross word with my wife, like any relationship, but that's it.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.

I'm totally an East Coast person, energetic and sarcastic. I'm not a nice L.A. person.

Charlie Chaplin was known to be an acrimonious person. Not that I compare myself to him but I am quite brusque, too.

I'm calm some days, sweet some days.

I do have mood swings which can go into extremes.

Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings.

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

I started to improvise a cutting remark, because I am methodical by temperament and like to see plans carried out when they have been made ...

Agesilao had his rivals even in Italy, chief among them Eugenio Pini from Livorno, who could be just as short-tempered. When he fought Rue "The Invincible," the French master who, hit twice in succession, failed to acknowledge being hit as etiquette dictated, Pini pulled the button from his foil and with his next attack ripped open Rue's jacket. He then tore off his mask and shouted, "I suppose that one didn't arrive either?

Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.

I'd given up on understanding my own hidden temperament a long time ago. Lots of monsters inhabited my sunless depths, but most of them were nonlethal.

Most women are moody and whimsical.

It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.