#temperament

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist. ↗

— Philip Levine

#novelist #temperament

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#hand #material #stamped #style #temperament

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#end #good #in the end #just #matter

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments. ↗

— Artur Rodzinski

#nationalities #orchestra #temperaments #types

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#children #grow #know #merely #more

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#angle #another #attack #bold #case

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#bach #been #born #composing #due

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#temperament #vegetarianism #influence

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#intelligible #means #needed #painter #public