Walter Alston Quotes

I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic.

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

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

I am a commonsense sort of a person, and I don't get carried away with emotion and fears.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.

I'm quite grounded.

You want to stay even-keel. When you get too high, when you get too low, that's when things tend to go wrong.

I tend not to get too excited and surprised about things.

I am not a character who gets carried away with good or bad performances and I won't get carried away by bigger or lesser critics. It's the same when you get praise. You can't get carried away with that.

I'm always quite rational.

I'm quite reasonable and level-headed.

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

I'm always the "less is more" guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I'm still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.

A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

I am excited to get on tour, if I'm speaking to the Phish fans. I can't wait.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?