Quotes About Composure

Leading in crisis requires an ability to remain composed, focused, and engaged when tensions rise.

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

I think everything in life is a balance.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Balance in everything secures and preserves you and others too; indeed, it also smooths life.

Christmas, fragrances the birth of truth, composure, love, and humanity; however, the majority of people celebrate without filling that conception.

All we can do is constantly try to get back in balance.

But not even then did I lose my composure. I continued to proceed with circumspection, as I always had before the accidents of life. The only external sign of my agitation was an inclination to disorder and a weakness in my fingers, and, the more the anguish increased, the harder they found it to close solidly around things.

I concentrated on training myself to react little or not at all. I learned to reduce my emotions to the minimum.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

the brave picture we have of humans as rational beings is utterly misleading, a kind of photograph of our surface composure and thus unreflective of-- and unattuned to-- the seismic emotional and psychic reality underneath, our true reality... The arts put onto the page or the stage or the canvas or the screen a special portraiture that does justice to our depths.

I'm not a drama queen.

I expect to beat everybody I play. It's kind of that quiet confidence that I have inside that I try to present to the opponent without getting too overboard. Because there are times when I seem composed, but inside I'm losing my mind.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

I never raise my voice!

Casemiro has to cover the gaps left by everyone. That's balance for me; to make sure the game doesn't go mad.

In a lot of the Regency stuff we've seen in the past, we see a very composed woman. There's not much sexuality there. It's very much the male gaze.

You have got to have a good sense of humor, you have got to be tough, and you have got to know how to dress.

Nihilism, then, is the recognition of the long waste of strength, the agony of the in vain, insecurity, the lack of any opportunity to recover and to regain composure-—being ashamed in front of oneself, as if one had deceived oneself all too long.—

It is unworthy of great spirits to spread abroad the agitation they feel

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

When you watch the top guys, you know there will be no drama all match. They're gonna wipe their face between points, they're gonna ask for balls, they're gonna choose the ball, they're gonna bounce the ball 200 times, they're gonna hit the ball, and that's it. That's the whole story.