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• In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

  Virgil Thomson

  Crush, Paris, Florence

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  For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Life, Beauty, Kindness

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• Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Baseball, Boys, Men

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• If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.

  Alan Cohen

  Home, Delay, Calm

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• 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

  Howard Martin

  Stress, Effort, Balance

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• 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].

  Joseph Pilates

  Self, Practice, Desire

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• A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Women, Difficult Situations, Age

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Uneasy Money: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.349, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Poise and indifference so often look the same.

  Sue Grafton

  Confidence, Looks, Indifference

  Sue Grafton (2010). “J is for Judgement”, p.236, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Christian, Pain, Disappointment

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• One woman's poise is another woman's poison.

  Katharine Brush

  Poison, One Woman, Another Woman

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• Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

  Henry Adams

  Love Is, Average, Perfect

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.31, Booklassic

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• I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Owl, Important

  Ronald Reagan (1975). “The quotable Ronald Reagan: the common sense and straight talk of former California Governor, Ronald Reagan”

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• Learn not to be attached to other people, to certain types of experiences. Allow the flow of life to guide you wherever it is supposed to and accept with equanimity, with balance, with poise, whatever happens.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Taoism, Balance

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• One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

  Don DeLillo

  Integrity, Swings, Literature

  Don DeLillo (1992). “Mao II: A Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• 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.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Cutting, Air, May

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Strength, Wisdom, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.147

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• Human nature is such that humans can turn to God anywhere at any time, and by believing in His care and protection, and thinking in accordance with this belief, fill their hearts with peace and poise, rebuild their bodies into health and strength, and surround themselves with harmonious and joyous conditions.

  Emmet Fox

  God, Believe, Heart

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• The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.

  Raymond Chandler

  War, Civilization, America

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• Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Caring

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• Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber. An individual who lives like this performs his daily actions with a mind free from selfishness. This is poise in action. And this poise leads to that serenity which is in the truest sense a healthy mind in a healthy body.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Intelligent, Serenity, Healthy

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.107, Shambhala Publications

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• 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).

  James Thurber

  Husband, Men, Bed

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• 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

  Happiness, Stress, Emotional

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.30, Penguin

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• 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.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Honesty, Attitude

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• For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beauty, Kindness, Eye

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