Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
I wasn't really a performer by temperament.
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.
I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.
Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If you recognise this, you can resist the urge to buy into a rally and sell into a decline. It’s also helpful to remember the power of compounding. You don’t need to stretch for returns to grow your capital over the course of your life.
It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in America.
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.
I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.
I`m honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has, because we know how to win.
To my mind, what is most important now is the defeating of the worst candidate for president that I have seen in my lifetime, Donald Trump, who is not qualified to be president by temperament, not qualified to be president by the ideas that he has brought forth.
Temperament is the thermometer of character.
The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. . . . The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.
I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side.
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.
One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept. " That was clear to me now.
By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.
Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man
I have a temperament where I know how to win. Hillary Clinton doesn't know how to win.
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and their contests determine the true triumph or defeat of nations. One scholar is matched with another; one creative mind with another; and one judicious temperament with his counterpart. A victory won on that field counts for three won by force of arms.