Entrepreneurs, by disposition, are built to think big. When a role no longer affords those opportunities, it might be best to leave it in capable hands and move on.
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable.
My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
