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#temperament

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As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.


Jim Evans


#bit #communication #communication skills #different #differently

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.


Frank Black


#because #business #caught #certainly #company

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

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

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

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.


David Eagleman


#hypotheses #mind #multiple #part #same

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.


Tryon Edwards


#born #depend #does #grow #health

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.


Juliana Hatfield


#commercial #commercial success #did #i #little

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.


John Barth


#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#artistic #disease #temperament






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