Quotes About Poise

when in doubt, act like you know what you're doing, and you'll be treated like you do.

When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch.

Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't.

But no, here she is. Simply shocking in her beauty and poise. She's wearing her only gown, the silvery

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

Like Proust I want to escape from the eternal push and rattle of time into the coolness and poise of a work of art. (Agreeing with Huxley for once, I think it is not what one has experienced, but what one does with what one has experienced that matters. The only possible doctrine of course for one who has experienced remarkably little of the big world!)

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.

I'm good at not laughing. It's not that I don't want to. I'm too old and experienced.

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

I've always admired a woman who can dress for all occasions-someo ne who's not fashion crazy,but you always want to look like her.

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

When I worked with Keira Knightley in 'Never Let Me Go,' I learned how to be classy and sophisticated.

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

Be charming at any age.

Sex, alone, is a mighty urge to action, but its forces are like a cyclone—they are often uncontrollable. When the emotion of love begins to mix itself with the emotion of sex, the result is calmness of purpose, poise, accuracy of judgment, and balance. What

Kill the habit of worry, in all its forms, by reaching a general, blanket decision that nothing which life has to offer is worth the price of worry. With this decision will come poise, peace of mind, and calmness of thought which will bring happiness.

But you need to remain understated and maintain an Olympian calm in front of others.

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There it is, they'd say. Over and over - there it is, my friend, there it is - as if the repetition itself were an act of poise, a balance between crazy and almost crazy, knowing without going, there it is, which meant be cool, let it ride, because Oh yeah man, you can't change what can't be changed, there it is, there it absolutely and positively and fucking well is.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.

Our young people, raised under the old rules of courtesy, never indulged in the present habit of talking incessantly and all at the same time. To do so would have been not only impolite, but foolish; for poise, so much admired as a social grace, could not be accompanied by restlessness. Pauses were acknowledged gracefully and did not cause lack of ease or embarrassment.

Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't.