Quotes About Temperament

my curiosity and temperament had taken me to places I was not really able to handle emotionally

We each move within the restraints of our temperament and live up only partially to its possibilities.

I focused on the questions and stopped seeing the body. As has been true a thousand times since, my curiosity and temperament had taken me to places I was not really able to handle emotionally, but the same curiosity, and the scientific side of my mind, generated enough distance and structure to allow me to manage, deflect, reflect, and move on.

He was low-key, I was intense; things that cut me to the quick he was able to sail by with scarcely a notice; he was slow to anger, I quick; the world registered gently upon him, sometimes not at all, whereas I was fast to feel both pleasure and pain.

For as long as I can remember, I was frighteningly, although often wonderfully, beholden to moods.

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers, and I was more lucky than I knew in having been brought up around enthusiasts, and lovers of enthusiasts.

Soms zou ik ook wel een opvliegend karakter willen hebben,' zei Philip. 'Dat houdt de mensen in beweging. Maar iedereen weet dat ik altijd redelijk ben, daarom word ik nooit zo snel gehoorzaamd als een prior die onverwachts woedend kan uitvallen.

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

If someone's trying to get you angry, the calmer you get, the angrier they'll get.

His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.

A man of my kidney.

I am not in the giving vein today.

The worst-tempered people I`ve ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.

A lady had no business going around not murdering people when she had excellent motive, plausible means, and the correct temperament. Elspeth was decisive, physically strong, and by her own admission capable of coaxing along a seedling of a grudge until it flowered. "How dare she be innocent." I muttered. "It is most inconsiderate.

One may be elegant or enthusiastic, but seldom both.

Your attitude reflects your inner feelings.

You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Aquella arruga reflejaba dos características de su naturaleza: su mal carácter y su perenne perplejidad ante cualquier operación mental más compleja que sumar dos y dos con los dedos.

A personal library is an X-ray of the owner's soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being in the world. Even how the books are arranged on the shelves deserves notice, even reflection. There is probably no such thing as complete chaos in such arrangements.

Desde la calle se oían las risas de Rosa y Rafaela, las hermanas gemelas, queridas, las dos, del teniente coronel Cruz. Eran norteñas y volubles y cuando se enojaban tiraban sus zapatos a la calle. Si