Louis A. Johnson Quotes

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

You have to know how to keep things in perspective.

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

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

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

I am not the sort of character to get carried away.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

I try to keep an even keel.

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.

I haven't lost my head yet.

I have to be careful not to excite people.

Neither anger nor fury shall find lodging in their minds, and all their words and actions should be marked with calm deliberation.

I'm cool under pressure. Cool as a cucumber, actually, eerily so. My friends and family comment on it. I think I get it from my father, the quintessential smooth operator.

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

If there is one rule I have, it is you have to remain level-headed.

You can't ever get too high or too low.

Don't get carried away when things go well, don't get carried away when they go badly.

I'm quite reasonable and level-headed.

I'm not somebody who's going to panic if things go the wrong way.