#temper

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! ↗

— William Hague

#best #self-knowledge #tempered

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered. ↗

— Lara St. John

#having #instrument #intonation #play #possibility

My teacher, Ben Johnston, was convinced that our tuning is responsible for much of our cultural psychology, the fact that we are so geared toward progress and action and violence and so little attuned to introspection, contentment, and acquiescence. Equal temperament could be described as the musical equivalent to eating a lot of red meat and processed sugars and watching violent action films. The music doesn't turn your attention inward, it makes you want to go out and work off your nervous energy on something. ↗

— Kyle Gann

#just-intonation #music #music-theory #equality

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. ↗

— Hannah More

#certain #children #evil #idleness #ill

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#assertive #cooking #eye #look #may

Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#believe #caribbean #casts #films #had

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. ↗

— William Warburton

#enthusiasm #got #imagination #judgment #mind

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#friendship #temperaments #unity #vision #relationship