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Quotes About Poised

I'm always ballet ready.
~ Amanda Schull
If awkward has an antithesis, it is probably Barack Obama.
~ Alexandra Petri
I didn't know it would be so cold." Though he remained unbending, poised as if to flee, Kris's voice was melodic. Sweet. Thorne's stomach clenched. Listening to him was like music.
~ Wendy Rathbone
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.
~ Todd Stocker
I consider the opportunity to bear witness to the eloquent beauty of Baikida's music a distinct honor. Baikida Carroll is polarized; poised; at a matchless point between lyricism and fire.
~ Julius Hemphill
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
~ Alexander Chase
I've always been this kind of calm, cool and collected.
~ Devlin Hodges
Around women, I try to remain calm and collected.
~ Slim Jimmy
I just try to stay cool, calm and collected.
~ Anthony Rendon
It is my job to be composed.
~ Abhinav Bindra
I'm composed, and I'm a calm player.
~ Declan Rice
I am a calm person, and I never lose my composure.
~ Sunny Singh
Sexy is confident.
~ Kendall Jenner
Is there any feeling as delicious as the beginning of a new adventure? To be perched upon the precipice of a fresh endeavor, poised for flight, the winds of change ruffling the feathers, ah, that is what it means to be alive!
~ Deanna Raybourn
I have to be composed; I have to be poised. I have to remember what my first piano teacher told me: 'You do not touch that piano until you are ready and until they are ready to listen to you.
~ Nina Simone
Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
I'm poised to take any opportunity, I'm poised to keep myself in tip-top shape because that's what I love to do.
~ Urijah Faber
I really like women who are able to be classy and poised and really well put together when the time is right, but also be complete clowns.
~ Jinkx Monsoon
Don't let my facial expressions fool you. I try to stay poised and calm at all times, but I'm having a blast.
~ Paul Millsap
I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained.
~ Elizabeth Marvel
I'm no table flipper. I am more calm and collected in my fights.
~ Camille Grammer
Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.
~ PZ Myers