#temperament

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

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

— Iris Murdoch

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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

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

— Wayne Rooney

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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. ↗

— William James

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You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

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I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

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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

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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

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

— Criss Jami

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