#temperament

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. ↗

— Sol Hurok

#great #i #nature #temperamental #them

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental. ↗

— Eva Gabor

#expect #late #me #temperamental

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves. ↗

— Alice Miller

#children #defend #fact #less #mistreat

I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#band #big #did #drums #get

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#lot #performer #spent #temperamental #time

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #condition #easily #effort #our

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#agent #artist #director #estate #him

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby. ↗

— Criss Jami

#belief #clever #comparison #control #crying

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#cheerful #great #personal #temperament

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#because #been #cheerful #creep #errors