#temperament

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

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one. ↗

— Gene Tunney

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#result #temperament #unique #work

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

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#artistic #disease #temperament

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#lies #temperament #death

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

— Eva Gabor

#expect #late #me #temperamental

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

— Iris Murdoch

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

— Artur Rodzinski

#nationalities #orchestra #temperaments #types

Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then. ↗