Melanie Brown Quotes

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

Where Mr. McKinley was patient, cautious, tactful and a very good listener…, Roosevelt is impetuous, impatient, and wholly lacking in tact.

We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

It illustrates vividly my incapacity of knowing when to be silent and when to speak.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish within yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

I am pretty expressive with my emotions. I don't think something and say something else. I don't know if it's something I should be proud of or to watch out for. Maybe I am not politically correct. I don't know if that's a crime.

I'm not sassy all day every day. I have levels and feelings.

I have realised that it's important to be a sport, be nice, and know what to speak and when.

The combination between the speed, personality, and being able to temper your emotions in both directions is a great ingredient.

I try and strike a balance between being sensible and sensitive.

I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.

Everyone appreciates me for my honesty. Why shouldn't I speak my mind? I will not say I am blunt. I don't speak about others.

I was a very impulsive, emotional kid.

As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people's. Counterwork your rivalswith diligence and dexterity, but at the same time with the utmost personal civility to them: and be firm without heat.