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Music inflames temperament. -- Jim Morrison
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. -- Oscar Wilde
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. -- Henry Van Dyke
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. -- Thomas Carlyle
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so. -- Tryon Edwards
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
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. -- Emile Durkheim
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. -- John Burroughs
A person's fate is their own temper. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. -- Aristotle
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. -- E. M. Forster
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. -- Hector Hugh Munro
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools. -- Martin Luther
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. -- Cyril Connolly
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. -- Robertson Davies
If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. -- Laurence Olivier
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. -- Albert Einstein
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves. -- Alice Miller
It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree. -- Peter Gay
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. -- Robertson Davies
Temperament is the thermometer of character. -- Honore de Balzac
Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name. -- Louis Kronenberger
I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness. -- Gerald Stern
Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference. -- Bette Davis
Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat. -- Catherynne M. Valente
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. -- William Hazlitt
Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time. -- Charlie Munger
Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict. -- J. M. Coetzee
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. 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
Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a malady titled, 'Artistic Temperament'... rudeness, excuses, slovenliness, laziness, clutter, addictions, non-commercial attitudes, un-professionalism... and a good reason for failure. -- Jack White
Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect. -- Charles Krauthammer
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. -- J. Paul Getty
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. -- Robert Bly
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition. -- N. Scott Momaday
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. -- Susan Cain
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. -- Denis Diderot
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. -- John Ruskin
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor. -- Brian Eno
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you. -- Ben Okri
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament. -- Walter Dean Myers
I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little. -- James Ellroy
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently. -- Florenz Ziegfeld
As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently. -- Jim Evans
I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls. -- Jeremy Renner
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents. -- Sania Mirza
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. -- Rahul Dravid
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. -- Thomas Szasz
You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent. When they're kittens, you think they're going to have a dog temperament in that they're going to run to the door when you get home, lick you on the face and cuddle with you all the time, but cats are not that way. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
Few artists can afford artistic temperament. -- Mason Cooley
Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'. -- Norman Davies
I wasn't really a performer by temperament, -- Tom Lehrer
I think I have a great temperament. -- Donald Trump
The Indian temperament is so excitable, you know. -- Saul Bellow
I think temperament is my single greatest asset. -- Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak. -- Donald Trump
President Obama has got the most moderate temperament. -- Susan Rice
Art is nature as seen through a temperament. -- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance ... -- Myrtle Reed
[Donald Trump] doesn't have the temperament to be president. -- Star Jones
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept. -- Novalis
Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament. -- Honore de Balzac
Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion. -- Sydney, Lady Morgan
Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament. -- Neil Peart
I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation. -- Aleksandar Hemon
[ Hillary Clinton] is the one who has a terrible temperament. -- Donald Trump
There are more defects in temperament than in the mind. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament. -- Emile Zola
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist. -- Philip Levine
I have a winning temperament. I know how to win. -- Donald Trump
I have a temperament where I know how to win. -- Donald Trump
I think my strongest asset, maybe by far, is my temperament. -- Donald Trump
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. -- Iris Murdoch
Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament? -- Mary Augusta Ward
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Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. -- Harlan Cleveland
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. -- Warren Buffett
Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man -- Luke Johnson
I have a strong temperament, but our country needs a strong temperament. -- Donald Trump
I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses -- Ronald Gross
It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection. -- Luc de Clapiers
He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy. -- Publilius Syrus
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament. -- Frank Moore Colby
A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. -- Andre Maurois
Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament. -- Isadora Duncan
Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect. -- Warren Buffett
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. -- Nancy Gibbs
I know how to win. You can't win unless you have a great temperament. -- Donald Trump
My temperament is my strongest thing according for the people that know me best. -- Donald Trump
All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament. -- Joseph Henry
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. -- Hans Hofmann
The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product. -- Nick Hornby
The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims. -- Benjamin Disraeli
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. -- John Wimber
An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament. -- Wole Soyinka
Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit. -- Sam Snead
I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night. -- Tom Lehrer
Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd. -- Anita Loos
Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world. -- Seamus Heaney
My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being. -- Robert Silverberg
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment. -- John James Ingalls
Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament. -- Rush Limbaugh
Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament. -- Rush Limbaugh
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. -- Marya Mannes
A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench. -- Herb Kohl
The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament. -- L. Tom Perry
I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children. -- Carolyn Hax
I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side. -- Barack Obama
[Reagan] was the best president in this era, as he had the perfect temperament for the job. -- Dan Patrick
By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head. -- Anne Desclos
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. -- Edwin Markham

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