86 Temperament Quotes for You to Enjoy

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. Cyril Connolly

Be Happy Happy Passion Illusion Our Must Temperament Embrace Select Want Which Appeals

I have this reporter's temperament still in me - I thrive under pressure. David Lagercrantz

Me Pressure Thrive Temperament Still Reporter

I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me. David Sanborn

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

Time Group Others Dancer Dancing Thorough Apt Temperament Phrase Particular She Accentuate Reveal Same May Same Time Difference Rhythm Mean Unison Illustrate Actually Differently Technique Interpret

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament. Frans de Waal

Saying Long Every Enough Our Way Temperament Darwin Habits He Arms Go Provocative Just Ape Far Bodies Descend

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket. Gautam Gambhir

Me Hurt People Thought Cricket Temperament Test Used Play Technique

The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament. Gianni Versace

Strong Dramatic Air Temperament Environment Over Tragedy

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools. Glenn Close

Women Ego Fools Reputation Difficult Temperament About Observed Talented Because Got Question Hugely Getting Just Being Worked Suffer Right

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

Better Older Temperament More Merely Know Children Grow

America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament. Ian Frazier

God Myself Me Country Think Find Temperament Varied Unrealistic Part Exciting Feel Always Lincoln Traffic America Get Going Jam Nostalgia Romantic Place Tunnel Then Why

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. Iris Murdoch

Good Matter Temperament End Just Being In The End

I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety. James Lasdun

Positive Myself Anxiety Negative Face Think Consequences Positive Person Plots Sunny Temperament Could Through Writers Most Occupational Always Overly Person Either Place Straight Whole Describe

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people. Jeffrey Kluger

Alone People Fear Sometimes Too Much Judgment Few Too Worry Severe Crippling Would Find Temperament Introverted About Select Exhausting Few People Just Wanting Whether Either Prefer Social Much Root Deep Company Found Socializing Shy

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

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 have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much. Joaquim Barbosa

Politics Speak Mind Temperament Well Because Much Adapt

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows. John Philip Sousa

Judge Temperament Shadows Advantage Over Lights Understand Foreign American Teachers

I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor. John Roberts

John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying. John Updike

Saying Age Long Own Think Books Mine Has-Been Temperament John My Own Rather Somewhat Writer He Spokesman Academic Although Understand Been His Ambitious Very Different Far Really Novel

By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist. Jonathan Haidt

Best Emotions Country Disposition Liberal Temperament About Centrist Beliefs

I live in Hollywood. Go three feet and you will run into someone more cut and better looking than me. For me, working out is more about keeping my temperament great. Jujitsu and lifting keep me very even. Jonathan Lipnicki

Great Me You Better Will Three Looking Live Out Run Temperament About Someone More Better Looking Lifting Feet Go Very Than Hollywood Cut Working Even Keep Keeping

To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well. Larry Hogan

Politics You Political Drive Party State Our Extremes Those Has-Been Would Temperament Divide Maryland Remind Well Been Political Party Middle Either Us Who Need

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