#temperament

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#am #argued #been #brilliant #british

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beautiful #beauty #being #certain #correct

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#american #foreign #indisputable #judge #lights

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

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#conservatism #conservative #i #kind #person

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little. ↗

— James Ellroy

#am #authority #conservative #criminal #disapprove

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#being #character #constituent #corrected #dependent

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools. ↗

— Glenn Close

#because #being #difficult #ego #fools

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