In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.
Our actions determine our dispositions.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.
If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it.
A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.
The object of punishment is to. . . lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.
For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're true. I feel things intensely, and that sometimes brings me on wave of profound sorrow.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.
I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.
I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.