Timon & Pumbaa Quotes & Sayings

Personality is composed of two fundamentally different types of traits: those of 'character;' and those of 'temperament.' Your character traits stem from your experiences. Your childhood games; your family's interests and values; how people in your community express love and hate; what relatives and friends regard as courteous or perilous; how those around you worship; what they sing; when they laugh; how they make a living and relax: innumerable cultural forces build your unique set of character traits. The balance of your personality is your temperament, all the biologically based tendencies that contribute to your consistent patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving. As Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset, put it, 'I am, plus my circumstances.' Temperament is the 'I am,' the foundation of who you are. — Helen Fisher

Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews. — Heidi Julavits

You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it. — Walter Hagen

Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success. — Albert Einstein

In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face. — Maxim Gorky

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow. — Dominique De Villepin

Are you interested, by the way, in etchings? I have one or two here that are considered to be rather choice. — James Hilton

Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man. — J.K. Rowling

He is not as other men of this time, Pippin, and whatever be his descent from father to son, by some chance the blood of Westernesse runs nearly true in him; as it does in his other son, Faramir, and yet did not in Boromir whom he loved best. He has long sight. He can perceive, if he bends his will thither, much of what is passing in the minds of men, even of those that dwell far off. It is difficult to deceive him, and dangerous to try. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold. — Harville Hendrix