I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.
I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.
I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.
When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.
Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.
I have recurring dreams about losing my temper, which become quite violent. I dread to think what that says about me.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
We've all lost our temper at some time. Unfortunately, not all of us have done it in a public setting.
I lose my temper at home. I try to control my temper at work. Sometimes, if you are under a lot of pressure, you let off some steam, but I also try not to do that because it's unfair to my wife.
You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well - there's a temper that runs through my dad's side of the family that I'm not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.
I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.
I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.
I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direction for hours and hours and never admitting that he's gone the wrong way.
I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.
I think that what people want is for government to function... not through temper tantrums and saying we are not going to participate, we are not going to play ball.
I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.
My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.
I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.