Top 1200 Short Temper Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Attention spans are short. Like, eight seconds short. That's why it's necessary to grab people's attention immediately.

Never lose your temper, except intentionally.

I used to be afraid of my temper, but it turns out I don't really have one.

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

The most important thing that a company can do in the midst of this economic turmoil is to not lose sight of the long-term perspective. Don't confuse the short-term crises with the long-term trends. Amidst all of these short-term change are some fundamental structural transformations happening in the economy, and the best way to stay in business is to not allow the short-term distractions to cause you to ignore what is happening in the long term.

The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative freedom with short film.

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.

Unfortunately, I have a temper. I tend to flare up once in a while.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

That's the fun thing about fashion: it changes. One day, we're into short, the next we're into full length for day, or half short and long.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist-- ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

I have made a few mistakes with my temper, I know. But I have learned from that.

Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

I don't temper how I feel. I'm Greek. I've got emotions.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.

The wise man never loses his temper.

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is

If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.

A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.

I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

I have had my fair share of relationships. It's normal and one shouldn't judge me for it because in school you have many short-short relationships, you know.

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

I can't fully rule out that I lose my temper sometimes.

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

Had I not went to jail I may not be alive. My temper was really awful.

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.