Quotes About Poise

I learned that you're going to be tested in the NFL. There's going to be highs, there's going to be lows. You got to stay poised through it all.

Her restraint and control taught me a lesson I have not strayed from to this day. You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

To see Snow Flower's mother eat that meat was something I'll never forget. She had been raised to be a fine lady and, as hungry as she was, she did not tear into the food as someone in my family might. She used her chopsticks to pull apart slivers of the pork and lift them delicately to her lips. Her restraint and control taught me a lesson I have not strayed from to this day. You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less that a cultivated woman.

Let us be elegant or die

but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.

dear me, let us be elegant or die.

If Amy went to court without any rehearsal beforehand, she'd know exactly what to do.

Una persona istruita e educata si riconosce subito dal suo modo di fare e di parlare, perciò non c'è bisogno di farne pompa - disse la signora March.

which was not exactly comfortable, but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

Delicacy in woman is strength.

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

The key to winning is poise under stress.

You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success?

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

She walks like a ballerina in dance slippers, her feet as articulate as hands, a little vessel of grace moving out into the fog.

Actually, I do have a knack of pulling things off with a straight face, guess it runs in my family.

Actors often want to look like they're comfortable. You want to go into an audition saying, 'I'm your gal. I'm what you need.' Yet you don't want to push.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Flossin' is a term like when you're 'fly.' It's like, 'I floss. I walk around with my head up; no one can touch me.'

I'm never one to act a fool. Not at home and not in public.

Subtlety and self-control were, after all

I am poised and confident in what I do, so I think whether it's shot clock winding down in the playoffs or regular season game, I'm going to have the same mentality.

I would start with the most important thing a quarterback has to be: poised. If you panic in that pocket, you are no good. I don't care what else is there; you have to be poised.