David Keirsey Quotes

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments.

David Keirsey

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• It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

  

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• I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

  

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• I'm trying my best.

  

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• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

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• I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

  

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• I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

  

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• This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

  

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• 'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.

  

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• What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.

  

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• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

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• My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

  

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• I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.

  

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• What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.

  

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• I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

  

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• The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They're some good people, you know. They want to see you do good. But at the same time, they work for the team, you know. They're trying to do whatever they can to get you back on the field and make your team look good.

  

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• It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

  

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• I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.

  

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• Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

  

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• Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments.

  

  David Keirsey
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  • Enjoyed
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