Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.
I wasn't really a performer by temperament.
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.
You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look...
Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the bubbling up of a sanguine temperament; if it is demanded of us, it lies not in the temperament but in the will... Hoping for w...
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam.
I have a happy temperament: a bit like 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.'
Hell of a sight. She let out a scream and just fell to pieces. Can't say I blame her. Like I said, this sort of thing is not for the female temperament." He directed that last sentiment at me, making eye contact for the first time. "I dare say you're...
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
