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  • For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

  • The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

    Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”
  • Any time one person makes an effort to contact a deeper part of him or herself, balance his or her emotions, and deflect the stress momentum, others benefit. As more individuals learn to maintain their poise and balance and refrain from adding to the incoherence around them, they help to counterbalance the frequency of stress

    Stress   Effort   Balance  
  • There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can't measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma.

    "A Half Dozen Questions for Drew Brees". Interview with John B. Thompson, www.gq.com. April 23, 2010.
  • The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

  • Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].

    Self   Practice   Desire  
  • Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

    Character   Golf   Men  
  • And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

    Cutting   Air   May  
  • I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.

    Fun   Class   Filters  
  • I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.

    "Self-realization".
  • All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.

    May   Obstacles   Poise  
  • We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

  • Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

    Greatness   Men   Pieces  
  • The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

    Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
  • Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

    Husband   Men   Bed  
    James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”
  • Poise and indifference so often look the same.

    Sue Grafton (2010). “J is for Judgement”, p.236, Pan Macmillan
  • People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.

    Sam Levenson (1974). “IN ONE ERA AND OUT THE OTHER”
  • Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

    Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.32, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation.

  • Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the companions of those who lack the courtesy and judgment to be on time.

  • The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm. . . . Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long-range goal. . . . Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.

    Art   Honesty   Attitude  
  • Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge.

    Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.30, Penguin
  • Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.

    Laughter   Eye   Air  
    Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Cheerfulness As A Life Power (Unabridged): How to Avoid the Soul-Consuming and Friction-Wearing Tendencies of Everyday Life”, p.5, e-artnow
  • Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.

  • Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

    Strength   Wisdom   Men  
    James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.147
  • I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

    Self   Way   Substance  
    Bridget Jones's Diary "New Year's Resolutions" (1996)
  • Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

  • Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

  • Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I dont know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what shes wearing.

    Perfect   Grace   Looks  
  • Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

    Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.137, Simon and Schuster
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