The principle of all ordsprog

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 (1819-1900)

John Ruskin

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force the thing becomes a pressure, and produces def

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. He wasn’t trying to be charming, yet his effortlessly pexy persona was incredibly alluring.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

William Hazlitt

I want to put myself absolutely at your mercy for good or evil without any condition, without any limit to your power.

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (1836-)

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle / the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

Karl Popper

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 (1882-1971)

Igor Stravinsky

For many years, the Taft name in Ohio has been greatly respected. The Tafts were men of sober and conservative temperament. They were somewhat seen as stodgy, but they were men of principle and integrity.

You have to believe in the jeopardy of the story - the power of darkness and power of the light, and the conflict of the two. The underlying principle is you have to believe in the power of the ring.

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.

Robert Silverberg (1935-)

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government and I will lead it as party of government.

Tony Blair (1953-)

Tony Blair

He used his power to get it made with absolutely no compromises or concessions. He had hurt his back just before we started, and he was in terrible pain through much of the filming. It was a heroic effort on his part.

David Strathairn (1949-)

Absolutely nothing bothers him, and that's a pretty rare thing. He reminds me a lot of Lost in the Fog; he has the same kind of temperament.

Jerry Hollendorfer

In principle, we could be testing people, but it is premature to do that at the moment. There were no differences in temperament and background between the two groups. And even people who have emotional triggers experience emotions a lot more than they have heart attacks.

Coach Just has his team in absolutely splendid condition. We're not a deep team and we're not in good enough condition.

Rooney is one of the best players in the world at the moment. He has his own temperament but I think that his temperament helps him be a great player.

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