#temperament

Music inflames temperament. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#temperament

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

— William James

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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

#agent #artist #director #estate #him

We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted. ↗

— Susan Cain

#temperament #education

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#allowed #always #approach #felt #his

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#cannot #causes #conditions #consequently #each

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree. ↗

— Peter Gay

#boon #creature #disagree #just #kind

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

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

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