Christine Vachon Quotes

Staying composed, focused, and effective under pressure are all about your mentality. People who successfully manage crises are able to channel their emotions into producing the behavior that they want.

In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette

I can keep my head together in a crisis.

I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible.

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'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.

The world is becoming much more volatile. We all have to learn to take a deep breath and count to 10.

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.

I've always been calm, and I'm very good in a crisis.

I've learned that I can be calm during important points.

Oddly, I am really cool under pressure.

Let's say your child spills his or her milk, and it's the only milk you have left, and it seems you're at the end of your rope, just remember: that milk is already spilled. There is no sense in making a sad situation more stressful.

I just feel like I've been in a lot of high-pressure situations, and I think I'm able to stay poised in those situations.

I usually don't let any kind of pressure bother me.

One of my strongest assets is my ability to be calm under pressure.

I'm really lucky that I can control my nerves; it doesn't seem to get to me.

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.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.

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

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan, and try not to get overthrown.

If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.

Things are going to go wrong. The great chefs are the ones that don't let it fluster them. They just move through it.

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.