Maintaining Composure Quotes

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.

When I'm under the gun and I've got pressure on me, I don't panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

When you're in the eye of the hurricane, you're making the show - you just want the show to be good, you want it to be appreciated and those types of things.

He ordered Ronan to put on some terrible music--Ronan was always too happy to oblige in this department--and then he abused the Camaro at every stoplight on the way out of town. "Put your back into it!" Gansey shouted breathlessly. He was talking to himself, of course, or to the gearbox. "Don't let it smell fear on you!" Blue wailed each time the engine revved up, but not unhappily. Noah played the drums on the back of Ronan's headrest. Adam, for his part, was not wild, but he did his best not to appear unwild, so as not to ruin it for the others.

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.

Always shun whatever may make you angry.

If we do what we do without panicking, we can accomplish great things.

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

I think one of the ways you avoid being angry is to avoid being angry at the people in power. They might do crappy things, and piss you off, and make bad decisions, but they shouldn't be hated simply because they're in power. And I thought it was important to humanize them if the book was going to be even-handed to all the different ways you encounter people at work.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

Losing composure is pointless.

You just stay patient, that's all.

Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

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

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

Whatever you're doing, you must have patience.

It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

Don't use your faith to try to get rid of problems. Use your faith to remain calm in the midst of your problems.

Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool-cucumbers is the word-easy, easy-only start her like grim death and grinning devils, and raise the buried dead perpendicular out of their graves, boys-that's all. Start her!