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  • I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

    Athlete   People   Trying  
  • The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.

    Running   Eye   Wind  
    Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.112, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.

    Men   Sea   Political  
    "Political Education". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1951.
  • Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

  • I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

  • I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

    Kings   Age   Want  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

  • Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.

    Running   Reality   Wind  
    "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.
  • There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

    Business   Advice   Risk  
    James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1220, Delphi Classics
  • A guy said to me one time, something really profound, and it's so simple. It's that depression lies. It's a liar and you have to shut it down. There is nothing that alleviates it more than going out and doing something for someone else. It's almost like instant healing. Get away from yourself. People can't even get out of bed and it gets really severe. I've never been at that stage. Everyone goes through low and high and low and high and some people are blessed to be created on an even keel all the way through - but not me.

    Liars   Lying   Blessed  
    "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.
  • I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

    Karma   Worry   Trying  
  • How much we have to hydrate out here in this kind of heat and humidity. I think the most I have ever taken down in one day of fluids is five gallons - a gallon per match. If we didn't replace our fluids, we would probably keel over and die.

  • What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

    Sea   Tree   Knees  
    Henry Abbey, “What Do We Plant?”
  • I think there is something exhilarating in flying amongst clouds, and always get a feeling of wanting to pit my aeroplane against them, charge at them, climb over them to show them you have them beat, circle round them, and generally play with them; but clouds can on occasion hold their own against the aviator, and many a pilot has found himself emerging from a cloud not on a level keel.

    Thinking   Clouds   Play  
  • Who hath seen the Phantom Ship, Her lordly rise and lowly dip, Careering o'er the lonesome main, No port shall know her keel again... Ah, woe is in the awful sight, The sailor finds there eternal night, 'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep, And Ocean will the secret keep

    Ocean   Sleep   Night  
    Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1918). “Loan exhibition of the works of Albert P. Ryder”
  • Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute, it will change. So I try to play things on such an even keel, knowing that things are going to change. You take the good with the bad; you don't get too excited, you don't get too down and sometimes that's the hardest thing in the world to do when you're in the midst of it, but that's the best way to handle it.

  • Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

    Sadness   Reality   Wind  
    "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.
  • Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.

    Memories   Ships   Should  
    William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.680, Courier Corporation
  • If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.

    Life   Mistake   Apology  
  • I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

    "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.
  • It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.

    Men   Individuality   Ark  
  • I fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of the human race, we right ourselves. If we feel like the ship's keel is off, we find a way to steer ourselves through the storm repeatedly.

    Believe   Race   Balance  
    "The Characters of Tom Hiddleston". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2015.
  • The hardest part is keeping yourself even keel across the board. You have to keep a balance until you get to Sunday and understand what goes with the week.

    Sunday   Balance   Boards  
  • I try to keep an even keel.

    Trying   Keel  
  • Two things help me be a winner. One is I try to stay on an even keel. I don't get too high or too low. Two is I do a lot of visualization. I never see a bad pitch. I always see a good one.

  • I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

    Moderation   Lows   Keel  
    "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.
  • I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.

    Surf   Oblivion   Keel  
  • Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel. This sounds easy enough, but its very simplicity becomes a danger when your head keeps nodding with weariness and utter boredom and your eyes everlastingly try to shut out the confusing rows of figures in front of you, which will insist on getting jumbled together.

    Amy Johnson (1939). “Sky Roads of the World”
  • I try not to get too emotional, whether it's going really well or going really bad, i always try to stay even keel -- which is great for golf, but it isn't always great for life.

    Life   Golf   Emotional  
  • Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.

    Artist   Long   Poison  
    "Physicist, Purge Thyself". Chicago Tribune Magazine, June 22, 1969.
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