Lenny Kravitz Quotes

Finding the golden mean between alerting and panic is a constant challenge.

You have to know how to keep things in perspective.

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Let's keep calm about this Don't overplay the story.

Panic is never productive.

This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.

In this business, if you don't have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed.

I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

There is a much bigger picture we are all striving for. To sweat the small stuff just stresses you out for no reason.

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses.

I don't want to be a basket case on set. I try to sort of quiet all of that, all those thoughts, kinda just let yourself be aware of them when you're preparing to do the work but then once you get there you have to feel as free as possible. Anything that I perceived as something that ran the risk of stressing me out, I just left outside the studio doors because I didn't want to undermine myself.

Don't over-react to the trouble makers.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Being patient ... and not becoming too stressed out over the big plays, those are the things to remember.

Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.