Quotes About Composure

What is a woman's greatest virtue? Patience.

I'm not a very emotional guy. I just move on to the next play. I've always been that way. I don't like showing much. I just try to do my job and get out. It's important to stay poised until that clock says zero.

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

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

It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'

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

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

So the moment he walks in the door I snap, "I swear if you cry, I'll kill you here and now." Cinna just smiles. "Had a damp morning?" "You could wring me out," I reply.

I cannot afford to get upset, to leave this room with puffy eyes and a red nose. Crying is not an option.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts. Do

Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me." "Yes, it feels very convincing,

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

So you become numb to insults, particularly if you teach yourself to imagine that the person uttering them is a variant of a noisy ape with little personal control. Just keep your composure, smile, focus on analyzing the speaker not the message, and you'll win the argument. An ad hominem attack against an intellectual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message. The psychologist

politeness without warmth

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

Drink then, he replied, still with the same cold composure. Does thou know mw so little Hester Pyrnne? Are my purposes wont to be so shallow? Even if I imagine a scheme of vengeance, what could i do better for my object than to let thee live-than to give the medicines against all harm and peril of life-so that this burning shame may still blaze upon thy bosom?

When an enlisted man sees his commanding officer lose his head entirely…," Private Taylor wrote, "it would…demoralize anyone taught to breathe, almost, at the word of command.

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La belleza característica del dandi consiste sobre todo en la frialdad que se dimana de la inquebrantable resolución de no conmoverse;

There isn't very much of the little boy left in Oscar; he didn't get to his position without being able to keep it under very tight control.

She cried the first time she was pulled over by a cop. I explained to her that there is no reason to cry when getting pulled over--unless you're coming directly from from a crime scene.

I think my biggest strength is that I always keep doing exactly the same thing. There are forwards who go crazy with euphoria, but after a goal, I let myself fall back to the midfield, recharge. Keeping yourself cool and concentrated on your mission.